Are you someone that’s interested in working from home and are a keen writer?
If yes, then it is important to know that writing online is one of the most beginner friendly ventures to break into, since it is more about talent and dedication, than experience.
Writing gives you the opportunity to work from anywhere; all you need is a computer and a reliable internet connection.
However, many freelancers, both experienced and newbies face the same problem of finding well-paying jobs online.
Sometimes, freelancers get tired of writing for pennies, as well as competing with many writers in freelancing market places such as Freelancer and Upwork.
Unknown to many people, there are plenty of websites that offer you with better paying writing opportunities: from creating magazine content, blog posts, newsletters, sharing your personal stories and press releases.
We have compiled a list of websites that pay you to write, let’s dive in.
1. Listverse:
Potential Earnings: $100 per article.
Listverse is a multiple-niche website that features trivia lists from many categories such as society, history, lifestyle, science and entertainment.
The site only publishes list based articles, as its name suggests.
To be a paid writer, it is required that you provide an interesting and original article that goes for at least 1800 words with around ten items on the list.
However, payment is only done after the editorial team approves your work, which is when a writer is paid $100 via PayPal.
To increase the probability of your article being approved, it is important that you take some time to browse through their website and read over the popular posts to have a rough idea of what they are looking for.
In general, these articles are related to secret knowledge, human oddities, and misconceptions.
Some of the common popular articles you will see are:
- Top 10 most evil women
- 10 of the most common methods used to commit suicide
- 10 fascinating last pictures ever taken
- Top 10 incredibly surreal places on earth
- Top 10 ancient jobs that sucked big time.
- 10 serial criminals who were also entertainers
- 10 images of where children sleep around the world
- 10 famous people accused of witchcraft
- Top 10 countries with bizarre obsessions.
If you feel that you are ready to write and earn money, please hit their submission page.
2. A List Apart, (Web development and design).
Potential Earnings: up to $200 per article.
‘A List Apart’ is a site that publishes content regarding cutting edge and current topics in the entire website industry.
Here, there is information regarding everything you would love to know about creating websites.
A List Apart looks for talented individuals with the ability to write casual articles in an informative technique that is between 600 to 2,500 words for each particular post.
They have four main audiences that include developers, content strategists, designers and information architects.
Should you be interested in writing helpful posts or technical tutorials for ‘A List Apart’, remember.
3. Cracked.
Potential Earnings: $50-$200 per submission.
If you love Listverse, I bet you will love Cracked as well.
Cracked is an incredible website that will pay you to write list-style articles.
Apart from interesting and funny written content, Cracked also pays you to create memes, infographics and charts.
The site covers almost everything that you could think about, from science to history, sex to technology and any interesting topic that you could possibly write about.
No experience is required, if you have a good sense of humor and you are creative, do not hesitate to join their writers forum and start writing.
4. College Humor.
Potential Earnings: $30-55 per article.
College Humor continues to attract thousands of visitors each passing day.
The website is famous for comedic articles such as jokes, comics, videos as well as funny images.
Should you be a person who loves writing hilarious or ‘silly’ stuff, then here is your perfect site.
All you need to do is send your articles to be considered by the editorial team.For every article you publish, you will be paid around $35 dollars for a single page article to $50 for a multi-page article.
5. WOW! Women on Writing.
Potential Earnings: $50-$75 per article – Up To $150!
WOW! Is a magazine designed to support women writers.
The magazine offers resources, inspiration, online workshops, support and classes to assist women writers through all the stages of writing.
The good thing is that they pay you to write.
The article length should be between 1,000 to 3,000 words and you will earn from $50 to $75 for the same.
However, some good writers earn $150 for an article of 3,000 words.
Apart from making money through submission of articles, you also have the opportunity to join the writing contest an win an Amazon gift card and other prizes including cash of up to $400.
For all female aspiring writers and freelancers, make sure you are part of the WOW! Community.
6. MoneyPantry.
Potential Earnings: $30-$150 per article.
Here comes a personal finance blog that teaches you how to earn and save money.
If you want to save money, prepare for retirement, pay off debt or get some free stuff, there is always something to learn here.
They seek people who have the ability to write detailed stories with strategies, tips, interesting ideas and numbers that help readers to earn, save and grow their incomes.
You need not be a freelance writer to write for MoneyPantry, as all persons who can contribute to their blog are welcome.
They prefer long articles of between 1,000 to 2,000 words, with the minimum word requirement being 700.
Depending with the quality and length of your article, you will earn between $30 to $150 for every article.
Should you believe that you have some unusual ideas, interesting stories, actionable advice or personal experience, this is the best place for you.
‘Personal Finance’ is a great niche to write for. It both allows you to help other people get their finances on track, while making you extra money at the same time!
7. Focus On The Family.
Potential Earnings: $0.25 per word (1,200 to 1,500 word articles)
‘Focus On The Family,” is a bimonthly magazine which discusses family life, parenting and marriage from the Christian perspective.
The website has continuous writing needs for topics such as parenting kids, teachings about forgiveness, practical ideas and inspiration for students.
You can view their calls for submission from their site, but it is important to note that the writing tasks have deadlines.
For a short story of between 50 to 300 words, you will be paid $50 upon acceptance.
For the long articles of 1,000 to 1,500 words, payment starts at $0.25 per word.
Remember to read through their guidelines before submitting your articles.
8. Income Diary.
Potential Earnings: $50-$200 per article.
‘Income Diary’ looks for experts on making money online and social media, creating websites and generating traffic.
If you have the ability to contribute articles of high quality on topics related to that, you can earn $200 per article.
It’s possible for some articles, they will pay even higher.
As you can see, if you’re an expert in a particular field and can write amazing content, it’s not difficult to make a large amount of money from writing.
9. International Living.
Earning Potential: $74-$400 per article.
‘International Living’ is an incredible magazine that assists people to travel,, live, invest and retire overseas.
Their main themes are ‘income abroad’ and ‘fund your life overseas’ and they are always looking for contributors who are able to provide high quality content on the particular fields.
Their aim is on getting people who can write incredible content on ways of making money online and live anywhere with themes such as affiliate marketing, teaching English, book publishing and blogging.
Should you have what it takes, send your ideas to the editors and start making money through writing.
10. The Layout by Flywheel:
Potential Earnings: $150.
‘The Layout’ is Word Press design publication that serves as a blog page for Flywheel (Web-hosting provider).
They pay you for writing related to web development, business advice, marketing and WordPress design.
Experiences and personal stories are preferable and payment is based on the quality of your article. The articles should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words.
MORE Websites/Blogs That Pay You To Write:
Below are a bunch more websites that will also pay you to write blog posts and articles for them.
11. Hirewriters… you need to apply to become a writer, this is a content mill so low paid to start but if you can get regular repeat customers, you can build up to more.
12. eCommerce Insiders…$75-$150 per post. Retail/education focused.
13. skirt…. Reportedly pays for articles relating to women’s issues, (possibly $200).
14. Freelancemom …$75-$100 per accepted article.
15. The Penny Hoarder …You can negotiate earnings, personal finance niche.
16. Eating Well…$1 per word upon publication. Good options for food bloggers/aspiring food writers.
17. Back2College… $55 for approved posts. This website focuses on people later in life, returning to college.
18. Write Naked… $75 per post, but you must submit within an allotted time frame.
19. Chicken Soup For The Soul …Looking for heartwarming, funny or exciting stories that are brilliantly written. $200 per published story.
20. Themepark Tourist…$50 for short articles relating to theme parks, but can get up to a $150 bonus if the post generates a lot of traffic.
Freelancing sites that pay to write:
Self-Publishing Books to Make Money Online:
If you wish to bring writing to the next level, you may publish your work in paperbacks and eBooks.
Instead of writing for other people, you could build your own publishing business.
The transition requires a shift in mindset from being an employee to an entrepreneur – but many people have turned self-publishing into a full time career.
I first learnt how to create an ebook, after taking this course.
You can also learn a lot more about self-publishing, via Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Conclusion – Make Money Writing Online?
If you have been searching for well-paying jobs online, the websites above will offer you a better writing opportunity that will allow you to make money with your writing skills.
Writing could be a full time or a part time occupation, depending on your schedule.
But whatever route you choose, it is entirely possible to make a very decent income from writing online and great writers are in demand!
Another Way To Make Money Online:
However you choose to go about writing online, it’s a good idea for you to create a website or blog, where you can showcase your work to potential clients.
It could also be a further opportunity for you to make an additional income!
For example; I make money from writing indirectly – by creating content from my website and earning via affiliate programs and paid advertising.
You can also earn by creating sponsored posts, by connecting to brands and companies relevant to whatever niche you write in.
Many of the websites that now pay for content to be written, will have started off as small blogs run by a single person.
If you’d like to learn how you can make money writing on your own website and blog, this training will show you how!
Have you had much success writing online? Let me know in the comments.
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I have a friend who is so much interested in freelance writing and this post really gave some nice bullet points sequel to it so i will be sharing this post to her, Thanks alot.
You’re welcome thank you!
Just what I’ve been searching for.
Many thanks.
Hi! I hope many of these are still active. This was written a while back but hopefully some still relevant for you – thanks!