I wrote my first article for a national magazine (I'd written for college publications before that) in 1993, when I was 21.

It was a report on the various bizarre goings-on at that year's Harvard commencement. I think I was paid $150, and I was thrilled.

My favorite story about compensation for writing, apart from books, involves an article I wrote over 20 years ago about John Cardinal O'Connor, who was then Archbishop of New York. Like many people with a reputation for being conservative, O'Connor's reputation was undeserved.

I was paid $500 for the article, and I used the money to buy a king bed for my new apartment. I was a bachelor, but I liked having lots of sleeping space.

I knew some people were unhappy with the article. I was just waiting for someone to demand to know how I could sleep at night after writing such an article, because I could have said: funny you should ask....

Those were print articles, incidentally, and I wrote a whole lot of those over the course of years. Then I started publishing virtually all of my writing online instead.

Well, it is quite possible to get paid for your writing online -- like even $100 for a list or $700 for a blog post. But you need to know how and where.

Here is how and where:

https://www.tomwoods.com/words

Tom Woods