Today, I had a different writing offer than I'm used to and I was wondering if anyone could offer a little advice.
Normally my writing that I do is either in fiction writing for novels/novellas/short stories or in a local news media website covering topics such as city council meetings, crime, local high school/college sports, etc.
Recently I did an article for my local news media site about a Congressman visiting a local high school. The school district staff liked my story and style so much that they offered a position to me as a consultant. What they're looking for is someone to blog about their S.T.E.M. program and technology (they have such a great program beyond many other schools). Everything from origin stories about how they were able to budget for such stuff on a public school budget, to human interests stories about teachers/students/faculty success stories and how their education has changed their life.
They want quick blog posts on a semi-regular basis and asked me to come up with an amount for pay. They said the position would be under an independent consultant contract, but they were not sure if I should be paid per hour, per week, per story, or per word, nor were they sure how much would be a fair pay rate.
Being a local public school, I don't want to rip them off, but at the same time, I want to be paid fairly compared to market standard. It's basically a paid blogger position, but I'm not sure what that fair market standard would be. Any advice or anyone every do this for a school district before? I would appreciate any help that can be offered.
Normally my writing that I do is either in fiction writing for novels/novellas/short stories or in a local news media website covering topics such as city council meetings, crime, local high school/college sports, etc.
Recently I did an article for my local news media site about a Congressman visiting a local high school. The school district staff liked my story and style so much that they offered a position to me as a consultant. What they're looking for is someone to blog about their S.T.E.M. program and technology (they have such a great program beyond many other schools). Everything from origin stories about how they were able to budget for such stuff on a public school budget, to human interests stories about teachers/students/faculty success stories and how their education has changed their life.
They want quick blog posts on a semi-regular basis and asked me to come up with an amount for pay. They said the position would be under an independent consultant contract, but they were not sure if I should be paid per hour, per week, per story, or per word, nor were they sure how much would be a fair pay rate.
Being a local public school, I don't want to rip them off, but at the same time, I want to be paid fairly compared to market standard. It's basically a paid blogger position, but I'm not sure what that fair market standard would be. Any advice or anyone every do this for a school district before? I would appreciate any help that can be offered.