Sadly, because of this reason, many good writers have stayed away from online writing business while others have priced themselves out of lucrative assignments from websites, simply because they want offline world to be automatically transferred online.

In bricks and mortar world of writing, top freelance writers are accustomed to single writing assignments paying them $300 at very minimum. Rates for leading magazines can go up to $3,000 or even much higher.

Thinking that you can push a webmaster to pay you $3000 for your writing is just plain day dreaming. The realities online are very different. For starters, in offline writing market there are a few thousand publications paying good rates to freelancer writers. In online world there are millions of potential writing markets (and constantly growing even as you read this). The challenge in old world is finding a way to beat other writers to assignments. In new online writing business, challenge is being able to handle enough clients and to do enough writing daily to make a good income.

I danced around house, riverdance-style, for about 10 minutes when I read email from Chuck Bowden, editor of Your Ad Space Ezine, who promised to use my article. That was quite possibly one of happiest days of my adult life.

I'm aware that most of you have more thrilling lives than me and, therefore, would not find getting an article published online to be a crowning acheivement in your life. I, however, live a life of loneliness and solitude and would thank you not to rub your lives in my face.