Once you've been published and have been paid for your work, you can look for more highly paid writing jobs online.

The best writing jobs are not advertised, but it's worthwhile to check the "About Us" pages of Web sites, because if they're looking for writers, this is where you'll find writers' guidelines.

So how do you get the unadvertised top writing jobs online?

You get them by displaying your writing skills on your own Web sites. For example, let's say that you're interested in writing for financial sites. You could create a financial services blog, mentioning that you're available for freelance writing jobs on the blog's About page. Your blog will get noticed, and you'll get writing gigs in that area, because you've already shown your writing expertise.