I’d be a liar if I said I spent all my time working and writing just for the fun of it.
Writing is fun, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that money’s a pretty good motivator, too, and it’s the primary reason I’m up this early and getting ready for work (*cue theme: “She Works Hard for the Money” by Donna Summer*). Of course I love writing, and would probably keep writing even if it meant zero bucks. To be able to write and earn at the same …

As I mentioned here, I was initially apprehensive about the paid blogging business. Writing is my only talent, so to get paid to write about products/software/websites that I would normally not write about seemed a bit like selling out. To me, it seemed a little like quackery, and I’m rarely up for such a dubious challenge

It turns out, though, that most of my fears about the paid blogging business were based on misconceptions. I thought that paid blogging meant I would always have to write glowingly about …