During the economic recession many people who are tired of taking out loans to pay bills turn to work from home opportunities to earn extra money for paying their bills. Millions of people will try and fail at the same online income opportunities that everyone else is doing while others will use their brains and start creating crossword puzzles then sell them for profit.
Why Puzzles?
In spite of the computer driven age that we live in the average crossword puzzle is still created by hand. Why? The average computer can’t create a puzzle that’s challenging, fun to solve and full of word clues and also words that are coherent. Thankfully the task of creating create crossword puzzles falls into the hands of hard working, intelligent entrepreneurs who have the gift of being able to create puzzles that anyone will love.
What Are Crossword Puzzles Worth?
Most major news publications pay an average of $50 or more for one submission. The newspapers that pay more for crossword submissions are publications like the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today. In these publications you can earn upwards of $200 for a weekly submission and $1,000 for a weekend submission.
Simple Steps to Creating a Crossword Puzzle
Create the crossword grid – This step is very easy to do. Just create a grid where all words will intersect. For this process you can use a computer based program to find words that intersect properly or any of the wise variety of resources online to help you create your crossword puzzles.
Create clues – Every word that you add to your crossword puzzle should have its own clue. Your clues can be easy to read or tricky just make sure that anyone can figure them out after a few moments of guessing.
Test the puzzle – Before submitting your puzzle to a newspaper make sure that it’s a fun puzzle and easy to figure out by letting a trusted friend or family member test it before you submit it. This step will help you to find any errors in your puzzle and insure that it’s the best quality puzzle that you can create.
Where to Submit Crossword Puzzles
To find the best places for submitting your crossword puzzles, search online for submission guidelines to the newspapers or publications that you want to submit to. Most major publications will require you to submit an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper with the clues written on the left side of the page with the answers on the right side of the page. Make sure that you supply sources for any words that are not easy to verify just so the crossword puzzle manager for the newspaper that you submit your puzzle to will be able to verify your puzzle before publishing it.
So before you file for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, try creating puzzles for a little extra cash. You’ll be glad you did.
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