Wednesday, April 30, 2008

$50 for 50 words



Do you want to earn $50 with just 50 words? There is a website called Common Ties wherein they publish short answers to 20 questions that they have. All you have to do is to compose an answer to any of their questions and if you are chosen, they pay you $50 for it.

Of course, it's not easy to be chosen, but 50 words is easy to come up with especially if you take a look at their questions. It's easy and worth the risk. Here are their 20 questions...

1. What door do you wish you never opened?
2. What is your most obsessive thought?
3. Where is your favorite place in the world, and why?
4. What's the one thing your parents don't understand about you?
5. If you could relive a single day or moment, what would it be?
6. What were the strangest circumstances under which you have been intimate?
7. Under what circumstances have you been closest to death?
8. What is the most gracious act of kindness you have witnessed?
9. What is the worst betrayal you have ever experienced?
10. What is the most bizarre thing you have seen or done?
11. What is the greatest risk you have ever taken?
12. What is your earliest, most vivid memory?
13. What is the most meaningful "I love you" spoken by you or to you?
14. What was the single most terrifying moment of your life?
15. If you have experienced a moment of sudden faith or loss of faith, what prompted it?
16. If you could take back one thing you have done, what would it be?
17. What is your greatest talent or accomplishment?
18. What is the most joyful moment you have experienced?
19. What is the most painful moment you have experienced?
20. Open Question: Submit your own question and answer. No answer is off-limits, and can be on any personal theme. Here is a sample list of 20: abortion, addiction, adolescence, break-ups, crime, death, depression, eating disorders, humor, lucky breaks, mental disorders, moral dilemmas, pets, poverty, racism, religion, sex, suicide, turning points, war.

Very very easy! You could come up with 1 answer in 5 minutes. Try it!

Please read their Writer's Guidelines and FAQs for submission first. If you are an artist, they also accept art for their answers without illustrations.

Lastly, do read their Orphans page to see what type of submissions they are looking for so that you can pattern your answer to their style.

Note: They choose several answers every Monday and mail check for payments 30 days after publication. No paypal.

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