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There are so many writers around complaining about how hard it is to make a decent income from writing articles these days. Nothing could be further from the truth! I've been writing full-time for 6 years now and I've learned that a good writer can easily earn a full-time income.

In order to break away from the low-paying ranks, you'll need to treat your writing as a business proposition - and this means learning to make sure your business has as many streams of income coming into it as you possibly can.

In business terms this is called "broadening your debtor base" but it simply means making sure that there is always money coming in from someone, somewhere, all the time. If you rely on just one source of income, then you're really in trouble if that one source dries up! The more sources of income you have coming into the business, the more chance you have of getting your business to grow to a six-figure income.

Here are some of my favorite options for keeping my writing business strong:

1) Write Articles Offline

This is the main income source for my writing business. I'll write about whatever topic comes into my head. Selling articles is fun, challenging and rewarding. Do a Google Search for "Writer's Market Listings" and search out the high-paying magazines actively looking to pay big dollars for quality articles.

2) Write Articles Online

This has become a secondary form of income for me in the last year because the pay is about 1/10 of what you could earn by writing for offline publications. Even though the payrate is low, the potential for quick, easy, repeat-business means quick cash into your writing business.

3) Write Fillers

This one is a weird little writing market - but it's one of my favorites. The pay-rate per word is so high and the work is so quick that you can churn out quite a lot of these every week and make good money. A "filler" is the tiny snippet of information inside every magazine. It might be a joke or a riddle or a funny saying or even a recipe. Many glossy magazines will pay $20-$25 for a 50-word saying. That's great money for very little work!

4) Paid Blogging

I've had a blog for a while but it never occurred to me that people would pay me to post in my own blog! But they do. My logic in taking on this extra source of writing income was that I'm now being paid to do what I was doing anyway! Easy money.

5) Paid Forum Posting

This one is definitely not big money - but it's easy money - and any money that comes into my business means I get to stay home and write for longer. Besides, writing in forums is a great way to get your links for your own website out into the world where people can see them. Great free promotion opportunity and quick cash at the same time!

These are just a few ideas to help increase your writing income. The best part about writing across different forms and niches is that you never get bored. You've always got something different to work on - and they all have the power to increase your income!

Any writer who is really willing to diversify and break into a few different forms of writing will find that earning a full-time income really is easier than you think!

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