Category Archives: writing craft

Finding Something Friday: Fonts and Funds

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Looking for ways to make writing pay off? Search no more, my little fund-seekers.

This week, I was a tad busy catching up on web content writing. And I thought, Hey! Here’s a way for a Junior Hall who just happens to be living back at the homestead to generate some funds (or beer money, depending on your perspective on life).

Junior Hall and I sat down to pick a Demand Studios article in which Cathy C. Hall could show him the ropes. I/he wrote “How to Act Like an Anime Character.” People pay for that, you ask? Oh, yeah, they do. I learned tons about anime, and Junior Hall learned how easy it is to write web content articles.

Demand Studios is hiring writers; they pay a flat fee per article. Suite 101 is hiring, too. They pay based on web views, so your articles may not generate funds immediately, but you’ll generate what we in the business like to call a “passive stream of income.” Which is just a fancy way of saying that your writing will pay off while you sit back and do nothing. And Ehow works the same way. You don’t even have to apply to Ehow; just sign up. You could make a living off of writing web content. Or at least enough for a six-pack.

And if you need a break from all that web writing, find out what font you are. Take this quiz here for a little insight into your font personality. I think I came up “Helvetica,” the classic font. Let me know how font-astic you are. Now, off you go! Fonts and funds wait for no man (or woman).

Repurposing Makes Cents

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I started to write “Repurposing makes Sense,” but then Wham! A brilliant thought popped in my head with “Repurposing Makes Cents.”Even if I do say so myself.

Um, actually, this time it’s not so much me saying so as it is Marcia Peterson over at Wow! Women on Writing. She wrote a very detailed How 2 in the latest issue that can answer every question you have about repurposing articles and show you how to make mo’ money in the process. Check out Marcia’s How 2 article here if you want a primer on the subject.

You know that I’m a big believer in repurposing. I do it all the time with essays. Take my latest essay, “The Sign Solution” over at New Christian Voices. When I originally wrote it, I had a work-at-home mom pub in mind (WAHM Magazine, for you nosy readers). I submitted the essay, but I hadn’t heard anything in awhile. So, I took the thing out for a reread, and thought, “Hmmm. This little essay doesn’t really work for that market.” (To put the thought politely) I gave it a few humor tweaks and sent it over to NCV. Repurposed, the essay found a home and I’ve made a few cents.

But a part of that essay (how Mr. Hall likes music BLARING when he works vs. my need for silence when I work) was a nugget from a column I’d written over a year ago. But it was part of the new story regarding the sign solution. And that’s repurposing, too.
So, now you can truly appreciate the title of this post! Even if I do say so myself.