Constant Content

I use em-dashes in my work from time to time for emphasis. For those of you that do the same, have you noticed a rule/preference with the editors regarding spaces on either side of the em-dash versus no spaces? I don't generally use spaces and I don't recall that ever being a problem, but it came to...

Five years ago or so, I left CC due to getting impossible rewrites. I already made a post about this, but to make a long story short, the editor wanted me to use less of a formal tone. Doing that, however, would have cost me my regular buyers who were professionals in the field. I really want to com...

I think HiredGun has the right idea. Some editors reject an article if it has an overt editor note in the short description, but you can "bury" the note in your description and get your message across to them as well as the potential buyer. I always write my short summaries so that the la...

I'm returning to CC after a hiatus of several years. I had a good thing going here for quite some time. Occasionally I would have an editor send something back for a minor error that I'd managed to miss during my paranoid proofreading, but everything was mostly peachy. I'm a niche writer, so I never...

I've written here off and on for quite some time, but I've had something happen this week that hasn't happened before. I'm not entirely sure what to do about it, and I wondered if anyone else was having the same problem. One day last week I sold two articles (to two different people--not sure if tha...

I'm not sure if its what you want, but there's a 'Blog Entries' category as a sub of the 'General' category. Yes! That's exactly what I meant. I guess what I'm wondering is that if you select the "Blog entries" option if you can be a bit more informal with your work and make the sort of s...

I remember years ago there was an option to categorize your piece as a blog piece. Maybe its still there and I just don't remember how to check.

I've been writing here for several years, but the writing I've done has always been very formal. While this works just fine on websites whose aim is to inform, it doesn't translate so well to blog posts. I would like to attempt some less formal pieces that incorporate humor and a more conversation t...

I've only had a few articles rejected in my time here and its always for a grammatical error. The most recent rejection was because the editor just didn't like the sound of one of my paragraphs. I am totally floored right now, guys. This feels WAY too much like a DS CE rewrite. I've been away for qu...

I've always assumed that the keywords we list are the terms that help buyers find our articles. For example, if I submitted an article with only three keywords, only buyers who typed in one of those exact keywords would have my article turn up in a search. Then I read something that led me to believ...

When I signed up for Constant Content about five years ago, I remember reading something about using a question as the title of an article and the conditions under which we were allowed to do that. Up until now, I haven't needed to, but I have noticed in the past that several of my article titles wo...

Thanks so much guys, that worked!

I searched the forums for the answer to this question and although I found someone else asking the question, she never got an answer. I haven't submitted in quite a while and I noticed the submission form has changed. I can copy my article from OpenOffice just fine, but when I right-click into the s...

Lets get off the "According to" bandwagon for just a minute. There are many, many other ways to reference that line. How about... "Research data from the NIH notes that approximately 90,000 people are waiting for kidney transplants." "And the kidney transplant list keeps get...

Looks like we weren't the only ones who complained. The website is gone now. That was much quicker than last time.