A Story frames only have about five seconds to capture the viewer’s attention before the thumb swipes it away. And many of the viewers watch without the sound. This means text has to be readable without the sound. Plus, the text has to be placed well above the top bar and the reply section. It also cannot rely on a supporting narration.
This brief is more like a caption than a full-on story. The surface level most in need of polishing here is probably the Stories section. If copy feels ad-like, it gets tapped through a lot quicker than any other format.
Stories are brand accounts’ chance to show their personality. Fans follow brand accounts’ stories for first-look and unedited information. They want to know what sold out, what went wrong, what you think about that perfume everyone is wearing today. Shop pushes story views to highlight pics and videos without captions. Sequence of images and video without commentary is a tap-through slideshow.
A model writing Stories has no concept of a frame. It types paragraphs that are impossible to read in a matter of seconds, completely disregards that stickers cover the bottom third, and says every frame is advertising copy in the way the surface asks for something more like a text message.
Voice in Stories is more relaxed than anywhere else you’ll write in your career, so it harder to fake. A writer reviews a few weeks of your archive if you have one, or takes some voice memos from you. Stories is written based on how you actually speak rather than the brand guidelines.
Stories end when they are told in bursts. Two weeks of daily posts and then a month of no posts and the audience stops opening them. We write in batches against the realistic weekly limit, and the true number for most accounts is three sequences a week, not fifteen.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical Instagram stories copy | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One sequence, six frames | 100 | $10 | $0.10 | $10.10 |
| Five sequences | 500 | $50 | $0.50 | $50.50 |
| Twelve sequences, one month | 1,200 | $120 | $1.20 | $121.20 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
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Yes. Tell us the volume and cadence and we keep the same writer on the account so the voice stays consistent. The rate does not change with volume.
That’s most of the job. You get brief instructions telling you where to put the line for each screen for every frame, which makes it easy to read while you’re tapping. You get positioning instructions to avoid lining the responses up with stickers or the reply bar.
The frames expire, the document does not. Episodes that should be able to be used again in the future are flagged to be considered for inclusion in future episodes of the show. Sequences that contain events that occur on a repeating or cyclical/seasonal basis are written in a way to make it easy next year to change the date, if needed, without having to change anything else. You own all of it anyway.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Twelve posts drafted from an hour of interview notes. Our CEO reads those briefs and says yes without modification, which has never happened with an outside writer. He has a habit of starting sentences with “Look” and that is in there.
This makes sense at the current price based on batch pricing. However, the generally low hit rate means that about twenty of these are very good and the rest trend toward serviceable filler. Very good steam balls are, and always have been, appreciated, and the second steeping one was one of the best examples, receiving more comments than anything we have posted.
Each thread opens with the actual claim and spends the rest earning it — no “here is what nobody tells you” anywhere. Nine threads, eight usable exactly as written, one I rewrote because I had changed my mind during the process.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
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