Freelance writing

Since I am currently on a leave from work I have decided to do some freelance writing on the side.  I took a position with a company that writes specified content for buyers with keywords and phrases and well as some article writing for potential residual income.  While I do not expect to make much in the beginning, it is something and will hone my skills.  It would be ideal to have a work from home source of income for me anyway and I should use my skill set to do so, which is essential research and writing.  It should be interesting.  What I find odd so far is that to prevent someone copying a site word for word they use a commonly used program called copyscape to prevent that.  Awesome.  Good idea.  Not one likes cheaters.

  Now, that being said, it would be benificial if some of the editiors had enough brains to determine which words are necessary to the topic (like terms that are not flexible) rather than suggesting you 'edit' them.  By all means, instead of saying 'A mortgage can be open or closed with a variable or fixed rate' that can be changed to 'A mortgage can be set up such that it can be paid off at any time without penalty or it can be set up such that should it be paid before the term is up it will incur penalties.  The rate can fluctuate with the market or have a stationary rate'.  Now the first is a simple statement with simple terms that can be then expanded on giving the reader the right terms and a definition following.  Simple and concise.  The second needs to be expanded because the terms cannot be used, thus in the end, certainly not helping a reader understand the basic terms needed.  So I let go my first article, which by the way was awesome and about a complex idea that necessarily needed to use the actual terms, lest the reader have no clue what was going on.  I changed all the idiotic things like verbs to different verbs, but could not change the terms needed to explain the general idea.  Certainly not worth my time, given the payout, to attempt to do so in a way that half assed made sense.  So that is a bit of a downfall with companies that rely on Copyscape rigidly, or an editor that does so, but in general it works and besides that fact, I still have a fully formed article on that topic I can use elsewhere.
I will also be sending out a manuscript to a publisher and, of course, continuing with my fiction pursuits.