10 ways to Make Money Writing

1.Bring home the bacon writing for home businesses. Someone starts a new home business every 11 seconds. Home business owners need letters, press releases, marketing brochures, website verbiage, ad copy and more. While you are making money doing that…

 2.Write practical articles about owning and operating home-based businesses (of which freelance writing is one). Visit http://www.homebusinessmag.com/ to begin studying the market.

 3. Hawk fiction and poetry at arts and crafts festivals. Embellish your words with calligraphy, marbleized paper, pressed flowers, stenciling, and handmade paper. Sign up for craft guild mailing lists to receive show schedules.

 4. There once was a scribe from Nantucket, who wrote limericks to fill up her pocket…Submit verses and prose to greeting card companies found at http://www.writerswrite.com/greetingcards/publish.htm

 5. Write book reviews. Nonfiction book reviews state the book's objective, summarize the main concepts, include the author's credentials, cite a sample sentence or passage, and suggest what readers can expect. Reviews of novels, somewhat similar, delve into character development and other fiction techniques. Send two or three samples to an editor who's likely to request,

 6. Earn dough rolling out booklets of unique recipes: vegetarian, Turkish, Kosher, low-salt. Adhere to copyright laws. List ingredients in order, use std. abbrev., test recipes.

 7. Concoct food and cookery articles. After a few have been published, scour bookstores to see what's missing cookbook-wise and whisk up a proposal for a cookbook to fill the niche. Bone up on food facts at http://eat.epicurious.com/

 8.Draft company style manuals to, as James Rada, Jr. of Maryland says, "…Make sure everybody is writing things the same way." Style manuals include preferred salutations, abbreviations, company personnel titles, industry-specific terms and product names. Have samples so you can make slick presentations to CEOs.

 9.Tighten up tech drivel. Technical writer Joan Viener says that an English/Journalism/Writing type degree commands money from technical weenies and enginerds. Experience with MS office, Adobe Framemaker/Adobe Pagemaster, or RoboHelp and the like for supporting writing-phobes who don't know nothin' 'bout writin' is an advantage. Apply at contract employment agencies or set up your own tech writing service.

 10.Fatten your wallet as writer-in-residence. Read how writers and schools team up in Daniel Grant's The Writer's Resource Handbook available at http://www.allworth.com/Catalog/WR087.htm

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