Trying a new tack

I found out about a woman named Debbie Dragon who makes a good living as a freelance writer. She shows a copy of her PayPal account for a two week period earlier this year where it looks like she makes about $2000 in that period.

She gives excellent information on her website, and she also offers to mentor writers for nearly nothing, so I decided to have her mentor me for a month and see how it goes. She guarantees that if you don't make the mentor fee within the first month she will refund your money. Not bad. Plus, she claims to have so much work that she now uses sub contractors to help her get assignments done. So her other offer is to give you one paid assignment with your byline as part of the mentoring program.

I'm going to give it a shot and will post regular updates here as I go through the program. I recommend checking it out even if you're not interested in having her mentor you because she gives very good advice on her site: