How To Make Money Freelance Writing
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Aggregated Freelance Job Engines
FreelanceWriting.com aggregates job offers from Get A Freelancer, eLance Marketplace, ScriptLance, RentACoder, Get A Coder, iFreelance, Online Writing Jobs, Indeed, CraigsList, SimplyHired, WritingCareer, ProBlogger, Morning Coffee and Go Freelance.
JobLighted.com You can move the map around to see the locations that have jobs available. A very handy function.
Freelance Job Boards
ProBlogger.net has a jobs board for bloggers. OnlineWritingJobs.com is a jobs forum split into categories of high and low paying writing jobs.
FreelanceSwitch Jobs Board split into three sections : Programming, Blogging and Design/Illustration.
aQuent A lot of these jobs are less freelance and more creative, but they have stacks in various countries. Use the location selector at the top left to get jobs for your country.
Bid for Jobs
Get A Freelancer is a marketplace for you to work... you guessed it... freelance. Writers can bid on copywriting, data entry, proofreading, and web promotion. Competition from lower-charging Indians is heavy.
eLance Create a provider profile describing your unique expertise and experience, and attract employers with an online portfolio highlighting your prize work samples. Writing, website development, programming...
Odesk WriterLance Limited selection : only a few listed per month.
Sites Where You Can Get Paid to Write
Academia Research offers up to $20 a page for academic writing. You'll be writing college level research papers and upwards, being expected to write good essays with some research.
Constant Content Write articles, set a price and hope someone buys. It's a good way to earn real compensation for your articles, but you gotta hope someone buys.
Mahalo Greenhouse Join this website and write search results pages for them. They pay $10-15 for the pages once approved. Non-US citizens must fill out a W8-BEN form and will be taxed 30%!! If PayPerPost can get around this so can Greenhouse. :angry:
Guru.com doesn't seem to come highly recommended by anybody. Charges a membership fee to list your services to potential buyers.
About.com Always has a STACK of opportunities for those looking to write about their favourite topic. Remunerates well!