Similarly, if you want to be a professional screenwriter , money might not be top of your tree in defining yourself as one, especially if you work in film. TV is where the money is (but then you have to have that all-important portfolio of samples, creating a bit of a Catch 22). Yet it IS possible to make money writing in OTHER ways -- welcome to the world of the freelance writer. Freelance writers are available to hire for any number of writing jobs, small, medium or large. Here are the various ways you can write for money: Corporate work . All the copy in university and college prospectuses, CD Roms, on websites, in computer games, company text message alerts, toy themes, greeting card slogans and even on cereal boxes needs to be written by somebody -- and that somebody can be YOU. It's difficult work to source -- it's rarely advertised -- but writing to various companies can really help get your foot in the door on this one. Some are advertised on the paid-for site, Write This Moment , which is worth joining in my opinion: just 24 for the year. Journalism. The big magazines and newspapers often have their own freelancers (often people who've already worked for them full time previously), but smaller magazines and newspapers, especially those for niche markets, will often welcome articles from "outsiders". So if you happen to have niche knowledge, you can really clean up here. The big earners are pets