A couple of years ago, I found a website called Helium.com, a site dedicated to helping aspiring writers find a foruim to publish their work. I started out contirbuting articles which were rated against articles of similar topics and all of the writers shard in the advertising revenue. Although the funds dribbled in, it was nice when my total finally reached $25 (after almost two years) and I qualified for a payment into my Paypal account. Hey, now I'm a paid writer. Yet. things got better. Because of my involvement with WYDaily.com and Tide radio, I qualified to receive status as a professional journalist. With this affiliation in hand, coupled with my newfound obligation for educational papers as part of my Ph.D. studies, I now qualify for the Helium marketplace and am now given assignments every month. My first was a piece on qualitative research, and I beleive it was published on an online college website. Granted, I'm not paying bills with these funds, but it was nice to only have to wait three months for my second deposit. The assignments should be regular on a monthly basis for a while.

Anyhow, here is the link to my home Helium.com page

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