When your cousin Vinney calls you up out of blue to tell you he’s moving to Arlington and “do you have a Realtor you can recommend” you do of course because sport’s schedule/newsletter/recipe card your Realtor recently sent you is hanging on your refrigerator.

So what does all of this mean for you freelance writer? It means more assignments and more money! After all, real estate professional is either too busy or simply doesn’t have desire or skills to write their own newsletters and other materials. What they need is a freelance writer to handle this crucial aspect of their business.

To be certain, like any business you’ll need to get out there and hustle and market yourself before you can expect to market for your clients. You’ll need to prepare professional looking samples to start out with and hawk these to as many real estate professionals as you can think of. You can find these professionals by looking in phone book for addresses, pulling fliers from yard signs and introducing yourself to Realtors conducting open houses to begin with.

Writing for real estate professionals can be a fun, lucrative and interesting business. Now get out there and get to work!

Isabel Fena is author of e-book “The Untapped Market: How to Make Money Writing for Real Estate Professionals.” You can get a free sample chapter of her e-book at her website www.isabelfena.com or you can buy whole e-book for only $11.95 at www.booklocker.com/books/1339.html.

Some writers are amazed to see their words turn into movie reality. When Margaret Mitchell (1900 -1949) was a young girl in Atlanta, various relatives took her on tours of Confederate battle sites, describing Civil War so vividly that she imagined she was part of it. It took her ten years to write text for Gone With The Wind which she scribbled on yellow legal pads, shoving them under her couch when friends would come over to visit her. The best-seller was turned into a movie in 1939 and Mitchell showed up in Hollywood for fiming of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh) nursing wounded soldiers at Atlanta railway station. The author was overwhelmed by sheer vastness of scene. "My God", she told producer David O. Selznick. "If we would have had this many soldiers we would have won war."

Some writers have strong ideas about who should play their characters. Novelist Tom Clancy was initially unhappy with fifty year old Harrison Ford cast as thirty something CIA agent Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear And Present Danger (1994). He also berated actor for suggesting plot changes to his stories. Ford angrily retorted that writers who sell their work to big screen have to expect it to be changed, otherwise don't sell it. After two films did great at box office, Clancy hinted that he would be willing to bury hatchet to get Ford to star in next Jack Ryan installment, The Sum Of All Fears (eventually made with Ben Affleck in 2002). Ford demurred by saying," Maybe when I'm sixty."

Sometimes stars are better off just following writer's instincts. Lou Holtz Jr. was disappointed that Jim Carrey brought in a team of writers to change his lighthearted script The Cable Guy (1996) into a dark tale about stalking. Despite Carrey winning MTV award for best villain, movie was panned by critics, led to several executives being fired at Sony pictures and became known in Hollywood as "The Straight To Cable Guy".