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Should Writers Be Paid?
W riters, you need to read this article!Are you a lawyer, doctor, candlestick maker? Do you enjoy your work? Does your job help pay the bills and provide food for your family? All of us want to be paid for a job well-done. Even the “good book” states, “For the worker is worthy of his wages.” So, why do so many magazines online and off, think writers are any different? We too, want to be paid for our labor. In fact, we deserve to be paid for our work. You know why? It’s because magazines need US, more than WE need them. If it wasn’t for the contributors, there would be no content for the magazines. Smart business men and women who run successful magazines are aware that they need to pay their workers. I’m not saying that is has to be always monetary, we can be given several copies of the magazine our work is featured in, especially if the magazine is just getting on its feet. We can have links to our work, websites and books featured in the magazines. Writers, we need to band together and stop sending our work to places that think they are doing US a favor, by telling us our exposure in their magazines is worth its weight in gold. I say, Baloney! Who in their right mind would not want to get paid for their hard days work? The majority of us writers enjoy what we do and could not live if we couldn’t write, but sending out work, free of charge, doesn’t pay our bills. Wake up and smell the coffee, publishers and editors. If you want your magazines to have a great readership and be successful, you owe it to yourself to pay us and pay us well! Writers again, you need to put your foot down and let these people know we are not going to take it anymore! So, the questions are: Should writers be paid for their work? Or, should writers just give their work away? Writers - You decide. Her work has been featured in several magazines including A Poet's Cut, Skyline Publications, Saplings Magazine, Purpose, Mature Living and Weeones. Eve has won several writing contests, winning 1st-5th places. She also writes short stories, prose, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry chapbooks, and has self-published four books: Dontay's Alphabet Book of Color, Dontay's Poetry Playground, Enter Eve's Poetic Paradise, and Enter Eve's Musing Moments. Her next book is titled Dontay's Dog. Poetic Paradise. A delightful collection of love poems, 
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