Make Money Writing for Specialty Newsletters – By John Riddle

How to find and land ongoing, lucrative newsletter writing assignments!
How to find and land ongoing, lucrative newsletter writing assignments!
Why not get into the, ahem, spirit of things, surrender to the dark side, and try your hand at writing (and selling!) a horror story?
The general rule among science fiction writers is to always submit to the highest paying markets first…
There is money to be made from selling funny family stories. But, be forewarned. There’s a right and wrong way to use your family as fodder for maximum results…
Remote (paid!) internships can be a great way to make some extra money, as well as build up your portfolio and market your skills! Here’s how to get started!
I first decided to write articles for magazines targeting disabled readers and their families when reading about the high unemployment rate among people with major disabilities, even highly educated ones. I discovered that there was at least one magazine, Careers and the DisABLED, targeting these disabled readers by publishing articles on job-hunting and inspirational success stories. Later, I became frustrated in trying to sell travel articles in the highly competitive newspaper and travel magazine market. By taking the perspective of a mobility-impaired person on vacation, I was able to break into the travel market with an article in the magazine SPECIALIVING. This magazine targets mobility-impaired readers.
Get paid to scare!!!
Every story has a human interest angle and these publications PAY writers for them!
Sell your spiritual essays and articles to these 8 paying markets for writers!
There are plenty of markets for humor writing in the freelance world. However, the competitiveness of the industry has driven many people to the point of execrating their poor, defenseless monitors or mailboxes. After all, the more competitive a market, the less you’re going to get paid – in part because you’ll likely have a lower successful return on your submissions rate, and in part because if you think the pay is too low your job will be given to a horde of saps chomping at the bit to make money doing something that’s “fun”.
So, how do you get around the fact that everybody and their grandmother wants to attach themselves to the laugh-powered gravy train, regardless of actual skill or quality of sense of humor? Instead of focusing on “just” writing humor, the wise freelancer should find ways to integrate material capable of inducing involuntary grins into articles for niches that aren’t strictly focused on being funny…