出版与作家生涯2020lwn.net
LWN 出价300美元,征集新作者写的优质文章
LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
导读
LWN 面向新作者征集稿件,每篇稿酬 300 美元,帖子是它的作者指南。评论区有投稿作者和 LWN 编辑现身说法:从提案到发表要经历多轮编辑、遵守统一文风和自家标记语言,两周内来回 30 封邮件。对想给专业媒体投稿的写作者来说,这是一份少见的"编辑流程实况",能帮人认清好文章是怎么被磨出来的。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把多轮修改和统一文风(house style)当成质量保证而非折磨:有作者为两篇稿子花了两周、往返 30 封邮件,成品才因此扎实。
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假定读者比你更懂行:LWN 编辑明说要找能为"比作者更了解主题的读者"写作的人,别用科普腔糊弄。
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投稿前先摸清刊物的选题边界——LWN 只做自由软件社区的新闻,明确不做教程和"公司该用 DevOps 的五个理由"这类软文。
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给沟通和返工留出预算:稿酬是入门价,好作者会被提价,但快速赚钱不是这类投稿的合理预期。
HN 评论精选
高质量刊物靠严格的多轮编辑和统一文风撑起品质,代价是作者要投入大量沟通与返工时间。
我给 LWN 写过两篇文章(主动放弃了稿费)。整个过程相当繁复,要经过很多轮编辑,必须遵守他们的固定文风和自家标记语言。正因为这种一以贯之的细节把控,成品非常出色;但我不建议把它当成快速赚钱的路子——从提案到发表花了两周,往来 30 封邮件,还在他们的 CMS 里改了无数遍。
rwmj查看英文原文
I've written a couple of articles for LWN (I waived the fee)[1][2]. It's quite an involved process going through many rounds of editing. You have to stick to the house style and use the house markup. The results are excellent because of this consistent attention to detail, but I wouldn't recommend it as a way to make a quick buck :-) The whole process for these two articles took two weeks from proposal to publication and involved 30 emails as well as many edits in their CMS. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/749185/ [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/749443/
付费征稿在技术圈是常见模式,稿酬属于能带来转化的获客成本。
很多 VPS 服务商提供类似条件。比如 DigitalOcean 的 Write for DOnations 项目,一篇新教程也付 300 美元。我猜这笔钱是能回本的——我见过不少人就是因为想跟着某篇教程做才注册了 DO,尽管照着做其实并不一定需要 DO。
from查看英文原文
Many VPS providers are offering similar terms. DigitalOcean has its Write for DOnations program (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digitalocean) which pays $300 for a new tutorial, for instance. I'd imagine the cost must pay itself off, I've seen many people sign up for DigitalOcean because they wanted to follow one of the tutorials (even though you don't really need DO to follow them).
投稿要瞄准"内行读者"、避开教程与软文套路,并接受编辑流程必然耗时。
我是 LWN 的编辑。我们一直在找能写出高质量文章、并且不怕为"比你更懂这个主题(或比任何人都懂)的读者"写作的人。我们关注自由软件开发社区的新闻,不做操作教程,也不做"贵公司该用 DevOps 的五个理由"那种文章。上面提到的稿酬是我们的入门价,对做得好作者我们会比较快地往上调。如其他人所说,我们极其在意发表的内容,所以编辑过程确实要花些时间。
corbet查看英文原文
LWN editor here. We are always looking for writers who can create quality articles and aren't afraid of writing for readers who know more about the subject matter than they do (or anybody else does, for that matter). We're interested in news from the free-software development community; we don't do how-to articles or "five reasons your company should be using DevOps". The cited rate is our entry rate; we try to bump things up fairly quickly for authors who do good work for us. As others have noted, we care deeply about the material we publish, so there is definitely some time to be spent in the editing process.
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