Has anyone had any luck with eLance?

Elance is a good source for finding ghostwriting jobs, but is not a good place to get passive income. You will rarely write under your own name on Elance and the only recognition you will get for the work you have completed there is in their job history, which is mainly useful for getting more jobs. Of the job bidding sites, I personally think Elance is the best.

Not me. But I wasn't able to devote a lot of time to it, and quickly became disinterested. It was a lot of writing for no reward--and I don't mean financially--I took the time to write many, very detailed and helpful answers with no response or 'thumbs up' from anyone.

Waste of my time IMHO.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.