Despite feeling terrified, in April 2012 I made the leap into freelance work and spent a number of months accruing steady contract gigs as a digital content producer and writer.

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Still, he exercises a mature writer's restraint, content to leave questions unanswered.

ECONOMIST: New fiction 1

Paul Dean has an interesting preview of the new content as well as an interview with writer Anthony Burch over at Eurogamer.

FORBES: Connect

The reason the writer becomes important is because Google wants to verify and validate the content, and that you wrote it, to avoid spammy sites.

FORBES: Content Is Not King

The typical genre writer keeps rhetorical flourishes to a minimum, and the typical reader is content to let him.

NEWYORKER: Easy Writers

Gawker takes the side of the writer, who apparently over-summarized and under-linked to the original content.

FORBES: Same Old Sex Slave, Brand New Gawker Story

The takeaway for content producers across the board is that giving readers a clear stake in a topic aligns reader and writer interests.

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In fact, one writer who got a look at mogultown.com before it was taken down says there was a content store on the site.

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