Make a Living Writing: 25 Tricks for Freelance Writers
By Richard Fire
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When I was a child, when I told my parents that I wanted to be a writer, they told me that it was very difficult, as difficult as being a soccer player (I don't deny it); and that the best thing would be to have a job, for example (recurrent example) as a teacher, and, in addition, to write in my free time. How? Is it impossible to live only by writing?
LIE.
For a while I believed it, until they started to offer me money for my writings and I began to meet other people who, while still students, had also found ways to obtain very juicy incomes from writing.
It is possible to make a living from writing, experience has taught me that and here I share how. So that all those who, like me when I was a kid, want to do it, can learn from my experience.
You don't need to have a boring job that you hate. If you are really interested in the art of arranging spaces and letters, there are millions of people willing to take advantage of your talent: it has a huge value in the market.
If you notice, there are so many subjects that must be written down: mails, formal requests, announcements, news, biographies, manuals, instructions, catalogs... Even a good restaurant menu must include a few sentences about each dish and drink.
On the other hand, there are very few people who know how to write clearly, making themselves understood, economizing space and making an impact.
There is an opportunity for writers who take their profession seriously and make the most of their own creativity.
It is difficult because we have been educated to obey, to write or do what we are told, and, as we see in this book, if you want to make a living from writing you should not limit yourself to writing for others.
In this book I show you the way to polish your lines until they come in like the sea breeze: giving life.
I write, finally, the book that I would like to have read.
It is not the first book that exists on this subject, so I will spare you content that you can find by searching Google and Amazon.
Here I show you what has helped me, my trajectory.
I warn sailors: making a living from writing requires discipline and passion. Discipline, self-discipline in case you are independent, can be improved. Not passion, if you don't like writing, if you don't do it out of the need to express yourself and to create, it is very difficult for you to dedicate enough hours to it to make it a source of income powerful enough to give you the life you want.
I'm not going to dwell too much on this, regarding self-discipline, there are mountains of books on habits and routines that can help you. In short: you need to write practically every day (at least every week), at least for a few years (give yourself five years as an outlook in which, with a lot of effort, you can get to write better than most).
If you dream of being known for your literary work (even if you use pseudonyms, you can always reveal your identity to whomever you wish), or make a living from helping to solve problems (if your preferred genre is essays), this book is for you.
You are probably here because you have lacked something to be able to dedicate yourself 100% to words, or, perhaps, you already do, but you want to improve. Come on!
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Make a Living Writing - Richard Fire
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The two big ways to make money writing
Chapter 2: The writer's path
Chapter 3: Tricks to make a living from writing
Conclusion
Introduction
When I was a child , when I told my parents that I wanted to be a writer, they told me that it was very difficult, as difficult as being a soccer player (I do not deny it); and that the best thing to do was to have a job, for example (recurrent example) as a teacher, and that, in my spare time, I should write. How? Is it impossible to live only by writing?
LIE.
For a while I believed it, until they started offering me money for my writings and I began to meet other people who, while still students, had also found ways to get very juicy incomes from writing.
It is possible to make a living from writing, experience has taught me that and here I share how. For all those who, like me as a child, want to do it, but have not yet succeeded. I synthesize years of experiences, trials and errors to the maximum.
You don't need to have a boring job that you hate. If you are really interested in the art of arranging spaces and letters, there are millions of people willing to take advantage of your talent: it has an enormous value in the market.
Look, there are so many subjects that must be written down: mails, formal requests, announcements, news, biographies, manuals, instructions, catalogs... Even a good restaurant menu must include succinct descriptions of each dish and drink.
And there are very few people who know how to express themselves clearly in writing, making themselves understood, economizing space and making an impact.
There is an opportunity for writers who take their profession seriously and make the most of their own creativity.
It is difficult because we have been educated to obey, to do as we are told, and, as we will see below, if you want to make a living from writing, you should not limit yourself to writing for others. Nor can you write exclusively what you like.
To earn money, you will have to write texts that interest someone other than your mother. Some people say that this is prostitution, that a writer must be driven by his muses or any other justification of the old myth that he has to be poor.
There is no problem with those ghettos of marginal writers, at best: they are good readers. Most of them spend most of their hours in jobs they detest, I congratulate them on their authenticity, I prefer to wake up when I want to every morning.
I write, in short, the book I would like to have read.