Can You Make a Living Writing Online?
And if you can, is it worth it?
If your entire career was writing online, and not just a side income, or a way to make extra dollars every month, would that just blow your mind? I wonder how many people are lucky enough to write articles full-time for pay, and how they do it.
If you CAN make money full-time online with your writing, is it enough? Does is rival a classic 9-5 job as far as pay? Or is it barely enough to get by. I suppose that just depends on where a person lives, and what their needs are.
For me, it’s not so much the money, but that I can post whatever I like (for the most part) and see a few dollars or cents arise because of it. I think that is true for most online writers- we’re not (entirely) in it for the money, but for the satisfaction of speaking our minds and getting views out of it. It’s certainly more rewarding than just writing into a journal and creating trashcan novels.
This is a great way to let the writer within you out, and whether you can make a livable wage from doing it or just make enough to pay your cell phone bill the true reward is being able to write freely and share your abilities, knowledge, stories and ideas with others.
I don’t think any monetary compensation could rival that.
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September 18th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
If you don’t think, they you won’t.
Anyway, to succeed in online writing is like succeeding as an entrepreneur. Only the most hardworking, continuously learning, improving, entrepreneurs succeed in achieving goals that far exceed the 9-5 day jobbers’. They succeed because they never settle for less.
Others just drown down in the ocean of competition. Then they settle down to whatever they get and talk about satisfaction, knowledge, non-monetary rewards. They fail their conscience by ignoring when it is alerting. They don’t confront their true values but rather change them to make them feel good for the time being. But frustration is always on its way. It will get to them one time or the other.