Short articles.

Many short articles that are around 100 to 200 words on average can make you anything from five dollars upwards in places where peopelpublish ezine type articles. I have seen several of these article inclusion places online and people view your articles and if they like it, they purchase it from you to re use it somewhere else which is very good publicity for you as a writer as well as bringing in the extra moola for you.
I haven't yet gone into this area due to lack of time but checking out places like Helium may be a good place to start. You can just google it online and see what it may have to offer you, or vice versa what you might have to offer Helium and its members. I am going to check it out properly when I get more time, probably once I am in the states and I have less running around to do and I am more relaxed over there.

Paid to post forums.

Another way to earn money from your writing skills is to join the numerous paid to post forums that give you a few cents per spost for replyiong to other people's posts as well as starting your own threads. I am amyself a member of a few and when I have some spare time I write in the forums and at the time I get to their minimum cashout..
I request a cashout and get paid. It is quiote noce to get the odd bit of extra cash here and there and as some of the forums also are business related I also make more contacts for my other business ventures so I kill two birds in one stone. I don't just waste my time writing posts in the hope of getting some more people in my business programs but I also earn some cash while doing it. I think this is great also for newbies on the Net wanting to start to earn some cash from scratch.

Writing for fun or for profit.

If you wish to embark on a writing career then you HAVE to love writing. It's quite a brain drain and hard work, all depending on hour many hours you spend a day at it and what kind of resources you are using. If you have to come up with a lot of your own ideas, then it can really be taxing on the that Grey Matter so you have to be prepared and give your brain the super food it deserves. In the next few days we will take a look at brain fule which will help accelerate your brain cells working at a good level to help you to produce better quality work, faster so that when you do decide to become a writing machine you will be well and truly prepared to press that Go button.