I started online writing with Triond in August of this year. I love how you can publish pretty much anything that you can come up with. There are some rules and regulations that need to be followed though. Triond has a strict policy of publishing only original material. They will not publish anything that they believe is a duplicate of content posted elsewhere. I've got mixed feelings on this. Of course they do not want to plagiarize another writer's work or infringe on a copyright. However, I've found that they are a little too overenthusiastic at times about what is considered "duplicate" work. A couple of times they have rejected my content because it had a similar title to another article out there even though the body of the article was about a completely different subject! I was able to work it out with them through emails back and forth fairly easily though. Triond has been great about keeping up an ongoing communication with me as a writer.
Another rule of publishing with Triond is that it is not obscene. Their version and my version has differed on occasion though. For instance, when I was publishing an article about quotes of various musicians, I quoted Ozzy Osbourne. As most of you can attest to, Ozzy is very fond of the F word. I thought that putting stars over every letter except the F would be okay. It was rejected. I actually had to put a star over the F as well. I think this is perhaps a bit much. I understand that there are readers and writers of all ages here, my son is one of them. I really think that he could handle just seeing the letter F though.
The final rule of Triond that I've had problems with is not producing content that is overly commercial. I had tried to submit an article about a commercial on television. It was about a Zellers commercial where they go through all of the letters of the alphabet with things you can buy from the store. My article was mainly an explanation of all the letters because I couldn't figure out a couple for quite a long time. I was unable to publish it though because they though it was too promotional or commercial. I was really promoting shopping at Zellers, I was just talking about the commercial itself.
One of the things I really like about publishing with Triond is that you can publish all types of content -- anything from text articles to pictures to audio files and videos. I've found that readership of text articles is much higher than that of pictures but I love that you can publish in practically any form. From poetry to pictures of your cat to reviews of what you watched on t.v. last night. It definitely helps keep the creative juices flowing.
Triond is an online community of writers. You can make "friends" and "fans" on this site to help you gain a wider readership. Readers will often leave comments too on your articles which can really help you to improve your writing, learn others opinions and come up with ideas for other articles. I really like receiving comments and try to writer comments on other's work as well even if it's just a "Great Article" or "Keep up the Good Work". Sometimes I have more to say than other times but if I write great article you can be sure that I actually mean it.
The best part of publishing with Triond, of course, is the money. You are definitely not going to get rich quick here. I've made about $25 in about 3 months. The more you write, the more you make. It may just be pennies at first but those pennies do add up quicker than you'd think. And your articles just keep on making money after they're published. I've found that sometimes articles lose their popularity and sort of fall off of my radar. And then a few weeks later, they are rediscovered and start earning again. It's the neatest thing to think that I'm actually making money just from my thoughts and writing efforts. Sometimes Triond will publish your article on an outside website. They have done this with one of my articles so far. That article has gotten 13,500 views! My most popular article that was published on a Triond website got about 4,000 views so that's a huge difference. I'm not sure what the qualifications for your article to be offered to an outside website. I wish I did because then maybe I could be published outside again! It is definitely worth it even though you lose some editorial control.
