Does anyone know of a decent way to earn money writing?

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I like writing and would like to be paid for it. But, in my understanding of freelance writing is, I have to write a LOT of extremely boring projects at pennies a word. I can't write a single word about something that bores me. Also I have ZERO percent salesmanship skills. I can't write a proposal letter to some guy about what I would like to write about and then write about other things that suppose to make him buy it from me. Is there a place with a list of topics that I can choose from, tell them I can write about that, then send it in to be paid for it? And I would rather the topics come with its' own price tag- how the hell am I suppose to know what an article is worth to somebody else?