There are all kinds of ways that people get into paid writing. If you are willing to do a bit of research and can write reasonable English then you could get paid for writing. It is quite easy to get a job writing web content. There are sites on the internet searching for writers to write for them - the pay is not high, around one cent a word but once you get used to the format it is possible to earn $20 plus in an hour. There are also sites like Get a Freelancer where you can bid for work.
You can write ebooks, these are either ghost written for other people or published under your own name. Small publishers will pay you a royalty on every book sold. The books usually sell for around five dollars and you get twenty percent every time a sale is made.
There are other sites like constant-content where you write an article and submit it to the site. Visitors view the articles and then decide whether they want to pay for using the article or whether they want to buy the full rights. You can earn as much as $35 for a six hundred word article if it sells. Payout is made when your account reaches fifty dollars and the site is very good at making these payments. The host site takes around 35% of what you make so you should allow for that when you fix your article's price.
Another way that you can get paid for writing is to take a subject that you are well informed on and write a course for one of the internet sites like universalclass.com or for writersonlinecourses.com. These sites take a proportion of all the fees that students are charged and you get the rest. If you are willing to put in the work setting up a course then the returns can be quite good, even if you only charge fifteen or twenty dollars per student it soon adds up.
Once you have a portfolio of work then it is much easier to get writing gigs under your own name and to be published in print magazines
