LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors

Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by rwmj on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:34AM (#23925041)

I've written a couple of articles for LWN (I waived the fee)[1][2]. It's quite an involved process going through many rounds of editing. You have to stick to the house style and use the house markup. The results are excellent because of this consistent attention to detail, but I wouldn't recommend it as a way to make a quick buck :-) The whole process for these two articles took two weeks from proposal to publication and involved 30 emails as well as many edits in their CMS.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/749185/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/749443/

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by benhoyt on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:54AM (#23925150)

I've recently started writing for LWN and have written nine articles now: https://lwn.net/Archives/GuestIndex/#Hoyt_Ben It's definitely a stringent style and editing process -- I find it good discipline. Most of my articles have taken a full day to write (8-10 hours) plus an hour or two of editing, though a couple of them took two days. So not a get-rich-quick scheme, but also not bad (or you can think of it as them paying you to research and learn :-).

I've really enjoyed the process. It's nice to have an article done and dusted, and then you don't have to worry about it anymore. Unlike code, which keeps breaking, you have to maintain it, deploy it, add features, etc. Code is never done. But an article gets published, and (apart from reading a few comments) that's the end of it.

So I highly recommend subscribing to (or writing for!) LWN. It really is quality content. And I'm not even an avid Linux person. It's really inexpensive for what it is, and they're just a small shop so they deserve it (I think they only have 3 or 4 full time writers).

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by chrizel on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:13AM (#23925541)

Agreed! I'm also an LWN subscriber, even when I'm checking LWN just occasionally. I support their high quality content, which is so much missing on the internet of today.

Ben, just wanted to say that I especially liked your articles and it pushed me to resubscribe to LWN again. I like the topics you write about, because they really interest me. Good job! I really like AWK, Lua, Go and everything around it, so I'm looking forward to more articles from you.

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by jakear on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:24AM (#23925589)

Regarding the article:

Interesting read. I remember having to write a RISC-V implementation in BSV as class project Junior year in college. What a ride that was. It truly is a simple design though, implementing x86 would take more than an an undergrad.

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