Hi Dawn. I understand your frustration. My experience is kind of opposite. If I write about Medium, they don't pay squat. I write about writing sometimes but they don't pay a lot better.

The ones that pay best for me are the ones that are pure entertainment. Most of my pay comes from the articles in History of Women. It's a weird little niche, but it seems to do well for me.

Maybe try different topics. Like really off the wall stuff that no one else is writing about. You just never know, you know?