You can get paid to write a book. It's easily possible to make a fast $10,000, or even a  six figure amount. You could even make seven figures --- over a million dollars for  twenty pages of text.
 
It sounds incredible, but a fast seven figures is certainly  possible if you have a HOT, hot idea or have had an experience that hundreds of  thousands of people want to read about.
 
In his 2001 book about writing non-fiction,  Damn! Why Didn't I Write That?, author Marc McCutcheon says that it's not hard to  make a good income: "you can learn the trade and begin making a respectable income  much faster than most people think possible".