1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (64 page)

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393 CONTRIBUTE TO STORY COLLECTIONS.
You tell stories about your life every day, and you may well make some cash for doing it. With the short attention span of the majority of Americans, story collections are big business. Oftentimes, ads for personal stories can be found in newspapers, journals, or online.

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394 HOST WRITING RETREATS.
Your three roommates just moved out, and you're stuck with the entire lease. Before you start scouring craigslist for subnormal substitutes, think about opening your door to aspiring writers. You'll need to provide them with food and writing materials, but at least that creative writing course you took in college will come in handy.

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395 WRITE AND SELL EROTICA.
Everyone loves a good erotic story — why else would you be reading this book? (Oh, right. Wrong collection.) If you think you're spicy enough to come up with a passionate page turner, investigate which houses publish individual titles or collections for audiences to whom you can write. You'd be surprised at what gets some people off.

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396 WRITE A SCI-FI CHANNEL MOVIE SCRIPT.
How many times have you thought, who the hell writes these things? Well the answer could be you. Think you have an idea for a script on par with
Aztec Rex, Deadly Swarm
, or
Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon
? Write up an abstract and sample, and send it in to Sci-Fi Pictures, the channel's movie production branch. Careful though, your reputation will get fed to
Frankenfish
.

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397 WRITE A STRAIGHT-TO-DVD MOVIE SCRIPT.
These suckers are cash cows. If a studio owns the rights to the title of a successful movie, they'll turn it into an at-home empire (see:
American Pie, Bring It On, or Air Bud
). If you have an idea on how to extend a brand — seriously, we think they're on to Stifler's great-grandkid — then put together a proposal and pitch it.

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