Go to any letter page in a magazine or letter, and look at the names of the contributors. You are guaranteed to find at least of couple of names that are blatantly made up. Just 2 days ago in the Times there was a letter from someone called I. Lykitt. No joke. And why are the names made up? Because many publications get so few letters they just get the journalists to invent some.
So send in your own letter and chances are they will pay you for it. It doesn't even have to be a major work of prose. Comment on Colleen's new hairdo and you could make yourself £25. Easy. Most magazines and newspapers have a letter page, but make sure your contribution is relevant to the publication concerned. Readers of the Times ar unlikely to be interested in Cameron Diaz's varicose veins (as written about in letters section of last weeks Heat magazine).
What's more they all accept letters by email, so it doesn't even cost you a stamp.
So send in your own letter and chances are they will pay you for it. It doesn't even have to be a major work of prose. Comment on Colleen's new hairdo and you could make yourself £25. Easy. Most magazines and newspapers have a letter page, but make sure your contribution is relevant to the publication concerned. Readers of the Times ar unlikely to be interested in Cameron Diaz's varicose veins (as written about in letters section of last weeks Heat magazine).
What's more they all accept letters by email, so it doesn't even cost you a stamp.
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