As John carefully detailed before his departure, RPS was based by 4 freelance writers who had been annoyed by the falling charges they had been being paid. Though these founders are gone, virtually all these of us left behind (deserted, soiled, grieving) had been freelance ourselves at one level or one other and have handled the identical frustrations.
So right here’s a factor: we’re rising our freelance charges. If you’ve ever wished to put in writing for RPS, now’s the time to pitch to us.
Our base charge for 5 years has been £150 per article, which we’ve then adjusted up and down as demanded by the hassle concerned in any explicit article. Our new base charge is £200. We’ll nonetheless typically regulate that up and down as feels truthful, however we’re making a dedication to pay extra.
I feel that is necessary whether or not you’re a author within the games business or not. The actuality is that the majority freelancers don’t begin a profitable web site after they grow to be annoyed with dangerous pay; as an alternative, they both depart the business totally, or they discover a paying job inside it even when it doesn’t enable them to do the writing they’re greatest at. Good freelance charges assist the perfect writers to maintain writing.
Does this resolve every thing concerned with being a contract author? No – clearly not. As a rise, it’s a drop in an ocean upon which RPS is only one small dinghy. We’re doing what we are able to and I imagine it makes our freelance charges higher than many of the UK business.
(And if I’m mistaken about that, that’s nice information and we’ll work to extend them once more. Being public about numbers like these means we will be held accountable and that’s a very good factor.)
That’s the meat of this submit. The post-script is: in case you write about games on the web – as a daily freelancer, as a group member, as a very verbose commenter – you must take into consideration pitching to RPS. We’re at all times in search of new writers, we now have editors who may help information you thru the method in case your concept is nice, and we’re all in favour of new views. Even in case you don’t intend to make it your profession, it’s potential you’ve one nice story in you. We’ve even ready an article on how to pitch an article to RPS that will help you get began. Have a learn and get in contact!
