Making Money as a Freelance Writer on Associated Content

I've always wanted to be a professional writer. To be sure, the profession of which I am a member requires that one be lethal with a pen as a bar to entry. But being a dreamer, an idealist, and somewhat of a free spirit, I have little interest in writing pleadings, briefs, and other "lawyer" documents. While those documents have a time and place, they're usually not the stuff made of the dreams, imagination, and wild creativity that I hope to unleash on the world one day.

I regularly wrote for fun in grade school and went on to have a career in competitive speech, that required plenty of work with a pen. Then for years, mostly during college and law school, I chronicled my daily life in private journals. (God help us all if those ever get unearthed!) During law school and as I entered the practice of law, I found myself having increasingly less time to consume novels and write for anything other than work. So late last year, I resurrected a blog that I've had for a while and decided to try my (rusty) hand at writing once again. It's brought me tremendous joy and a fantastic outlet, but I've been ready to wade a bit farther into the freelance writing water for a while now. A friend recommended that I try writing for Associated Content ("AC") during a casual conversation about making money from home based on original content creation. My friend pointed me to the AC website and told me that I could get paid between $2 and $5, on average, for what is essentially a 300-word article on the topic of my choice. She said I could make more, depending on the subject matter, my expertise in the area, and the "hits" generated by my content, but I was already sold.

Getting paid for writing 300-word articles on the subject of my choice was a dream come true for me. I sincerely hope it encourages me to write on a daily basis on one of the many things that interests me and perhaps even force me to produce some work that has some "teeth." Only time will tell, but for now I'm happy to have the opportunity to write for pay and I'm eager to see where this road takes me.