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Chapter 3: Get paid to write

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If you have a bit of creative talent and fancy the chance to earn some money for your literary abilities, there are a number of ways in which you can get paid to write online.

Sites like Textbroker, act as a your literary agent so to speak, which means they work as a middleman and take a cut for finding a buyer for your articles or other content. You can expect to earn somewhere between $7 and $50 for each article that gets sold and you may find yourself writing content for adverts, newsletters, website content or blogs about sporting events or topics like finance and home maintenance etc.

Sites such as Constant Content and Textbroker will ask you to submit a short piece as an example of your writing skills and in order for them to assess whether you can accurately construct sentences and use correct grammar.

It may take you a short while to establish a regular flow of writing work to begin with, but if you enjoy writing and have good grammatical standards, you can create a good regular income by being paid to write online.




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