I took some stuff that I wrote for AstoundingTales.com and reworked it into a Squidoo lens. I am having some good luck with these lenses. They actually make a buck or two a month. This doesn’t sound like much, but some of my sites have thousands of pages and I average, even at the most prosperous site, about 10 cents a page per month.
I distilled all of the writing advice I’ve read (and I’ve read a lot) and made 17 steps. Some of these are obvious to anyone who has been writing, but the Squidoo lenses get lots of hits from the search engines.