Web 2.0 Freelance Writing
Everybody's doing it ...
If I had a basic recommendation, it would be: Everyone should be blogging or otherwise linking to their life story.
I've been writing for a long time, have spoken with many people on the topic of writing, and in my experience — everyone has a book in their head [everyone wants to be a writer, maybe because it's a cool lifestyle, maybe because the world could benefit from the world's thought process].
More specfically, Amazon and Google are kinda/sorta betting on the above with their competitive information product benchmarking. To prove my point, the latest development with substitution and disintermediation in media is Twitter. If a hyperlink truly represents human thought process, the final step is in play. Send the world your thoughts from a cell phone or home computer, whether they want to hear them or not. Manage your total Web 2.0 Freelance Writing efforts from a site such as HootSuite: Who doesn't have a Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn or Twitter account these days.
See what I mean?
Alternately, recount your Web 2.0 efforts directly to Kindle. Amazon's Digital Text Platform aside, Amazon now pays bloggers to sell their posts directly to Kindle readers, so you can publish here, or you can publish there, but you definitely should be publishing somewhere.
America's economy is becoming that of a service economy anyway, so why not tell the world how to do things the right way. You never can tell who you might help along the way.