Kathleen Ewing's (president of the Inland Empire branch of California Writers Club AND a member of Professional Writers of Prescott (AZ) [She has homes in the two states.]  has an article in today's issue of Writing For Dollars that gives excellent suggestions for converting your life experiences into cash. Writing personal experience articles. You may have noticed that magazines that used to carry one or two pieces of fiction each month no longer carry fiction at all.  In fact, about the only place you find fiction today is in literary journals. Many do not pay. Few pay big bucks.

Although I decided at a very young age that I could not call myself an "author"  unless I wrote and sold fiction.  By now , although I hve won a number of prizes for fiction,  I can count on my ten fingers the number of stories I have sold.  More than 99% of my sales to more than 80 national and regional journals have been non-fiction and at least 80% of those have been based on personal experiences. 

 You'll find Kathleen's  excellent advice in the current issue of Writing For Dollars: www.writingfordollars.com. Until tomorrow, Willma