Sunday, February 19, 2012

Writing a "Short Story"

Slowing down a little bit-- I've been busy with my day job! Went online this morning and filtered for jobs that pay more than .50. If you haven't already gotten it, I highly recommend installing Turkopticon if you regularly Turk-- it can tell you reasonably quickly whether a HIT is a waste of time.

In any case, I found a HIT that pays .51, and the requester (Sofia Wright) was reasonably well rated on Turkopticon:



The job was to write a Short Story:

Write a short dialog between a travel agent and you.
The topic of the story is:
Imagine that you are going on a family vacation, and you are making arrangements for a place to stay.  Please use the "Booking Details" below, and definitely make sure that you will be staying at a child-friendly hotel. Write both sides of a realistic conversation you might have with a travel agent.
Booking Details:
City: San Diego, CA
Check in Date: July 2nd 2012
Check out Date: July 7th 2012
Number of Guests: Two adults, 3 children
Price Range: $130 - $210
Room Type: with two double beds
Amenities: DVD player

We want 6 -10 turns for each of the people in the conversation.
Please spell check your story.
Write it as if you are speaking it.
Example of writing style and format:
Hi, how are you?
I'm fine thanks, how about you?
Doing well. So what's new?
Not much, just the usual.
Anyways, wrote a quick dialog in about 10 minutes. Not sure it was worth the time, but was reasonably interesting!

Approved earnings so far on mturk-- slowly but surely:

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