With your connection you can sure do a lot if you know how.

For example, you've got perfect writing skills which you can put to good use by starting a niche based blog where you can sell affiliate products for big merchants like amazon, ebay, clickbank etc.

You can also choose to write paid reviews, sites like ciao, epinions, reveiwstream, yuwie etc are great sites that require those with good writing skills to write products and services reviews and get paid for it.

Some of these paid review sites also double as revenue sharing sites, where they share a chunk of their adsense revenue as a way of rewarding their users.

You can also start domain flipping, a business of building adsense content rich sites and selling it for the right amount.

As a writer, you can publish a book, an ebook to be precise and upload it to sites like scribd; which allows you to market your books using their platform for free (more info is needed that time wont permit me to explain).

But in all you have to consider the risk factors involved. you also need to understand that making money online is not a get rich quick scheme as many internet fake gurus and overlords will tell you.

This is about selling or proffering solutions to problems, or filling a void; just imagine how the offline biz works, then put it into the online, the only difference is that you don't get to see the person you are transacting biz with.

All the best and good luck