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How to make an extra $1000 writing technical articles

2 min readMay 9, 2022
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Have you ever fantasized about writing technical articles for a living? How would you react if I told you that some companies would pay you up to $300-$500 for an article you write?
If you want to earn for writing technical documents, then this article if for you.

This article will show you the list of companies that pay you for writing. Earning money from writing as a software engineer is very good because it will make becoming a documentation engineer’s journey easier. In addition, you get paid to grow and hone your skills in their product/tool.

I will list a few points that will make it easy for you to get a freelance technical writing gig.

  • Have at least two in-depth technical articles hosted on a writing platform like Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, and LinkedIn.
  • Know how to use Grammarly.
  • Know the basics of Markdown
  • Know how to work with static site generator

The points above are very relevant when you are applying for a freelance role as a technical writer because every company or writing agency wants to hire the best.
Back to the reason for this article, I have worked with a few writing agencies and companies that pay you for writing about their product, and I can tell you…

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Nwokocha Wisdom Maduabuchi
Nwokocha Wisdom Maduabuchi

Written by Nwokocha Wisdom Maduabuchi

A software engineer with considerable experience in mobile development, native Android, and IOS development(Xcode), flutter dev, technical writing and community

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