How to Build Your Online Writing

Writing online, like any writing is a problem solving activity.  This is why there is such a heightened demand for writers these days.  The growth of the internet has exposed people to instant solutions and everybody wants to ride on this wave.  Suddenly, packaging of these solutions and their identification with corporations, products and personalities has elevated writing to become the number one career.  But then, why is it so hard to find a genuine well paying writing job online?

Demand for writers has created another crop of writers.  These are the desperate mercenaries out for hire at whatever price.  All they want is to get some money.  It doesn’t matter if they work as slaves.  It doesn’t even matter that what they may be doing is stealing other people’s labors.  This new problem has created jobs for other people – creators of anti plagiarism software.  It has also created heightened suspicion in the writing industry.

But sitting and mourning about these challenges has no consequence.  Writers must press on and do what they are called to do.  I say, called to do, because writing is a calling like the various other callings, including preaching.  Writers need to be less hard on themselves.  You need to give yourself some breathing space; a pat on the back for every little piece you do.   We need all the encouragement we can get.  And most of this must come from us.  This may be the only way we can keep our focus and sanity.

Writing Market
Making money online apart, the expansion of the writing market place through the internet is a big opportunity for the writing fraternity.  Forget who else is in the market place and focus on what you have come to do.  You have brought your wares out to the market because you want it consumed for a return to you.  Whether we are ready to become salesmen is not important:  writing involves selling ourselves through writing.  You want to produce something that readers can read and use.  And you want to earn something in return.  You must brace yourself to tell and sell.

Fortunately, there are so many places you can do the telling and the selling that the limiting factor is only yourself.  The conduits to the market include such online publishing sites as Triond.com, Xomba.com, Matrixmails.com, Moneymakingmommy.com, AssociatedContent.com, eHow.com. 

Visit these sites and others.  Explore so that you can make a decision based on knowledge.  Once you chose a site or several for your online article publishing purposes, select the categories under which you will write for and get on with it.  You can write as much as you want and get this published.   Don’t however write with the hope of overnight success in making money online.  It doesn’t work like that. 

Write and Publish More
Write with the target of growing your writing portfolio.  This is what will ultimately lead you to the money.  Understand the categories you’ve chosen to write for.  Research every topic you write on and provide solutions to your readers.  Seek also to write stories with evergreen appeal even as you write on seasonal trends.  What you will be doing is to keep your writing current so that what you write will still be in demand one or more years from now.  These will earn you money through royalties.  It will also market you as a reliable online writer: opening doors to short-term jobs as you build up for the long-term haul.

The truth is that there has never been a better time for writers.  Grab the opportunities available online.  Seek out those sites which pay well for your work and do not ignore those that share revenue with you indefinitely.  These may not offer much at the outset, but if you stick with them; writing persistently good material and getting it published, you will ultimately grow your royalty.  And all the while, you can still seek other opportunities.  Enjoy the process of writing as you