Journalism can seem like a major no-no for ordinary people like you and me. However, people all over the world write on a daily basis for the love of their topic. Writing is a passion for many people. Some have been writing since they were children and some have taken to writing later in life. The vast majority don't think they can get paid to write.

Not everyone thinks they can be a good writer but they make that assumption based on their opinion of a good writer is. Too often we assume a good writer is someone like John Grisham. That just isn't true as there are many different styles that have good writers.

Good content is actually about love and passion for the topic. Many thousands of others on a global scale will have a passion similar to yours even if it is a weird but cool topic that people are passionate about. Most of us have an interest in mainstream culture too such as politics and music.

Writing doesn't have to be an international task either. Writers can be as passionate about small local issues as much as large international issues. Who else knows more about local interest issues than local amateur writer? Local issue writing can be just as rewarding for writers too.

Without experience or contacts in the world of newspapers, journals and websites getting a paid job to do what you want to do, write about your passion, is almost an impossible task.

Fortunately for many would-be writers and bloggers there are some services that pay you to write for them. That's right, you get paid to write. You can do this in topics and categories you love so this is the easiest way to write for many amateur scribes.

The websites take your writing whether as articles or blog posts and publish them on their sites and then the share any of the revenue that they get from people clicking on the ads on the website. The big advantage these sites have over a writer who posts their content on their own blogs is the number of people your content goes on. The numbers these sites get every day is huge.

The newest, and most generous, of these sites is called InnerBuzz.com and has a revenue sharing model of 50/50 which means you get 50% of the ad revenues your content produces. This, in the area of shared revenues sites is the highest I know of.

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