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There are many ways to make money writing. You can write novels, become a newspaper reporter, do technical writing of owners' manuals and instructions... the list would be endless. However, probably the easiest way to get paid to write is to get paid to write online.

Why is that? How could that be true? Consider these five points:

1. The market is enormous. There are millions of existing websites and thousands more going up every day. Websites communicate with their visitors through the written word. Someone has to write all that text. Webmasters (those in charge of websites) do not have enough time to do the writing along with everything else needed.

So someone will get paid to write online and will make money writing the content, sales copy, articles, e-books, blog posts and whatever else is required.

2. The qualifications are easy to meet. If you can write in simple, clear, understandable English at the 5th to 9th grade level, then you can make money writing online. The emphasis is on speed, clarity and readability. No prior writing experience is required. Native English speakers are in demand

3. The demand is for unique text. Copying just won't do. The Internet is a creation of computers and one thing that computers do very well is compare one page of text with another to see if they are alike. Any one page can be compared with millions of other pages in seconds. (Visit webscape.com to see how easy comparison is.)

Websites are ranked by the amount of unique text they have (pages indexed) plus the number of other sites linking to them (backlinks). TDuplicate text gets its value discounted heavily. To get high search engine ranking so your website appears on the first page of a search on your key words, you must have unique text.

The only way to generate unique text that is intelligible is to have it written by a human being. Machine generated just doesn't make sense, is not coherent, does not communicate... is unacceptable. A person must write it. This is the way writers make money writing and why they get paid to write online.

4. It's easy to get started. The text needed is contracted in fairly small contracts, consisting of a few days or maybe weeks of work for a writer. You get paid to write online by going onto one of the major auction-marketplaces and bidding on contracts offered. Win the bid, get the work and you make money writing.

Anyone can participate as a freelancer. You don't have to land and hold a full time job. This means that you can start part-time, take a contract or so and gain experience. You can stay part-time or decide you want to get paid to write online as your full-time occupation.

5. It doesn't matter where you are. If you have Internet access you can work from anywhere, work the hours you like, when you want to work them.

If you want to make money writing, there is no other market as large, growing as fast or as easy and flexible to get started with.

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