I just quit my last paying writing gig…and you should also!
- Posted by Essays Blog in Essays Blog |
- September 4th, 2009 |
- Comments
I just quit my last paying writing gig…and you should also!
I just quit my last paying writing gig. Why? Because I make more money giving my writing away. Yes, that’s right. I make more money giving my writing away than I did selling my articles and columns. In fact I’m making more money writing part-time for free than I did in any of my full-time paid writing jobs and that includes advances and royalties from the publication of III novels. I have been writing professionally for cardinal decades and I never cerebration I’d make more by writing for free but I am.
But that’s not even the best part — and I know you experienced writers will believe why this is better than money — I can compose whatsoever I deprivation. I pick my issue and my angle. If I deprivation to be funny or irreverent so I can be funny or irreverent. If I deprivation to melancholy or maudlin so I can be melancholy or maudlin. It just doesn’t matter because I’m writing to accommodate myself! I am my own boss and my own editor — and I’m making money off my writing.
How? I compose for the internet. I have been doing so since 1999 and earning money during the entire time. I have written freelance and low contract for a number of internet publications and ventures as advantageously as publishing my own activity.
At first I considered my personal internet writing just something to fill my creative advocate as I transitioned from full-time writing to full-time commandment, but so I noticed something curious — I was making money.
Today, after a lot of activity and contemplate I have discovered the right mix that works advantageously for me — and I decided it just doesn’t pay to keep the writing contract any more. The time I old to fill the contract can be far more enjoyably and profitably exhausted writing on the internet.
What internet venues am I exploitation?
~ Ezines and Newsletters
~ Blogs and RSS feeds
~ Blade Sites
~ Articles
How do I make money with these efforts?
~ Selling advertising area in my ezines
~ Selling matter links on my blade sites and blogs
~ Posting pay-per-click ads on my blade sites and blogs
~ Promoting affiliate programs on my blade sites and blogs as advantageously as in my ezines and newsletters
It really is not a difficult or complicated business model and one any competent writer, or anyone with the ability to add a decent condemn unitedly, could replicate or modify to accommodate their purpose. I am a writer not a business person, but I know this is employed for me and that it could activity for you, also.
Now go out thither and give your writing away!