To be fair mate, you WILL NOT find an article writer for a $1, i know you said you had found one that wrote for you before, but from what ive read on here and my experience from other forums, the best you'll get is written by an indian or something.
I had no luck either frm gaf, mainly got my time wasted by indian ppl trying to convince me they were english...anyway, thats my scoop on that..
As to making a quick buck online, yes e-whoring would have been my first choice. Since this is out the question, maybe you should consider what you are good at, and use that to your advantage. From what i have seen in the forum so far, there are loads of guides on how to make money, im in middle of 1 or 2 just now, find one that you think could work and try it.
1.Try finding an affiliate product or network offer to promote.
2.Do some keyword research and find out how many people are searching for your product, and how many websites are competing with you.
3.Purchase a cheap domain name with your main keyword in it.
4.Add content to it, articles are really good.
5.See if any video results come up when you enter in your keywords to google, if not, yu may be able to sneak in there with a few submissions to digg, and use tubemogul as well.
6.Write one article a day, using the keywords you selected, and ping it.
7.Join social sites like squidoo etc and make them related to your product/offer, also ping your link to your daily articles to build up backlinks.
This may take a little time, but im starting to see the rewards from the ones i began a few months ago, im trying out a few things i learned from here now to get some cash until the rest catch up
Hope this helped mate...