Writing and Selling Articles - Fool's Game or Money Spinner?

So you want to write. Why? When was sparrow mumbling a popular pastime? Where can you sell what you write? What tune did Mozart teach a starling to whistle? How much income might you expect to get as a freelance writer? Why did the sex life of an orchid offend botanists? Why is it wrong to call someone who's overweight 'obese'?
This tell-all book should be given an information overload warning. Based on the author's eighteen years experience of writing and selling articles, it is a valuable source of information for an aspiring writer, a frustrated article writer or anyone who just fancies the idea of writing articles and getting them published in magazines and newspapers.
But if you have no ambition to write articles you will,hopefully, still enjoy reading about the author's experience of working as a freelance writer.
If you aren't interested in that, you can go straight to the appendices where you will find twenty seven articles, on an eclectic mix of subjects, prefaced by notes on what motivated them. They were all written to interest, inform and hopefully amuse readers. If they don't do at least one of these you will have wasted your money.