The purpose of writing is to express an idea, or an opinion. Writing is a convenient way to convey ideas and opinions. Conveying with a view to enlighten and entertain has been the main goal of many an author which includes the famous authors of yesteryear like Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, H G Wells, Herman Melville ... just to name a few.

Even a fictitious story, being a collection of ideas put together in a logical sequence is meant to convey an important message. [Er ... to some extent!] Those authors enjoyed their work and got about their tasks with much fervor, producing masterpieces.

One of the perks of these activities was profit, of course in many cases not sought but could not be avoided. Money does not cause any harm they say, of course not, in small quantities. These authors achieved worldwide fame and were immortalized by virtue of their valuable contribution to the world of literature.

The writers of today have everything at their fingertips, convenient ways to get cracking on the task of showcasing their talent to the world. Well, compare the keyboard, to quills and inkbots and many things will come to light ... ...

Fast forward to the present day, the advent of the Internet generated the demand for writers ... or to put it in simpler words, people who can write. Web pages, being the blood of the Internet, needed content, stuff which conveyed a message or messages, intelligible and in some form of sequence, supporting the claims of the web sites which contained this content.

Right grammar, proper spelling, and meaningful content was needed. The demands were met. There were people who could write, and write well. They were in business instantly! Webmasters were willing to pay good money for those who could provide original informative content. ... The era of 'WRITING FOR PROFIT' had begun! ... ...

Advertising agents barged in to harness this new platform and reap the benefits. The need to create phrases as headers and content to describe the various products and services that needed to be advertised arose.

People who had the ability to describe something concisely as well as those who could "ham it up" were sought after. The number of such people was directly proportional to the 'size' of the Internet! In the very initial stages there were around three million people who had access to the Internet.

Right now, the number of people who access the Internet is well in excess of five billion! What do you think they are doing online? Well most of are looking for "something different!"

A good number of them search for something to do online that could earn them some revenue. The hope that they could find something with the potential that would enable the user to keep scaling up, which, in turn could generate more revenue keeps them on the alert, searching.

The target is to reach a financial state from which they could say goodbye to their day-time jobs.

As previously stated, writing online is something that has been in demand from the advent of the Internet. Everything you read online, be it an advertisement, an article, or bits and pieces of news items, has been written by someone.

There are many online companies that are on the lookout for people who could handle their promotional campaigns from their homes. Outsourcing tasks in such a manner can save them tons of money, as payment is made only for tasks accomplished, and the need to house them in their offices would not arise.

There are even sites that accept articles from its members and publish them online and pay a portion of the revenue generated by such articles to their respective authors. Right now it is probable that you are on one such site

If you have some ability to write, you should consider writing online too. There are dozens of online article sites that will accept your articles if they are good enough to be published on the Internet.

Some sites will even pay you for your articles. Some will share the revenue they receive from the advertisements that appear on the pages that contain your articles.

Writing articles and submitting them to sites bring along other benefits as well. People even market goods and services on the Internet via articles. There has always been a big demand for writers on the Internet.

There are billions of websites online and most of them keep changing their content frequently just to keep in step with the changes that keep occurring in the field of SEO.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. The content on websites have the power to influence search engines, and search engines present such sites to viewers in accordance with their interests.

Writing for a website also involves the right use of phrases and words referred to as keywords and key phrases which help search engines find the website concerned with greater ease.

Mastering them would be beneficial for those who have a website or websites of their own. Whatever the case may be, the demand for those who can create grammatically correct phrases and place them in a sequence that would convey an idea, will be in demand for a long time to come ... How do you think you could fit in here? ... Do you think you could fit in here in some way? ... to be continued ...