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

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).

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]