Writing for a living.
This would be the dream over the long term. Building up a large catalogue of work over years that keep generating revenue for the author. I have tried and failed multiple iterations of this to date but the best success stories come form failure.
The closest that i have gotten to success is building up a stack of hive from writing for the past seven years. This is something that I always want to be doing if we still have a place to write on the chain but it requires constant effort for small returns. Until we grow the userbase that's not going to change as there is a very small audience for the writing and no revenue being earned from it.
Another Hive user posted an interesting challenge into discord a few days ago.
The 7 day publishing challenge.
It caught my attention anyway so it seems like a good time to try and get more work out there again. The course is ran by a couple of so called amazon guru's and promises great things for those who are willing to follow the guidelines. They say it's a free course but the site does heavily push you towards the premium version of the course.
A few of us signed up to the free version on publishing.com and I'll follow along as best as possible with the rest of the group and see if we can get some quality writing published on amazon by this time next week.
Check back in next week to see the results and whether it could become a regular habit for more hive users to get published from their writing and increase their online earnings. Personally I doubt that this course will work wonders for me but it's worth a try to build a good routine and just maybe over time the e-books could trickle some revenue back towards my wallet.
The course starts now.
They have been sending emails all day about getting prepared and ready to go.
Here's a taste of what's coming:
Learn how to choose a book topic in minutes
Discover the secrets to writing your book faster than you ever thought possible
Master the art of publishing on Amazon like a pro
Uncover insider tricks to market your book and maximize sales. And that’s just THE BEGINNING!
- Day 1: Start.
- Day 2: Account set up.
- Day 3: Title and cover.
- Day 4: Book outline.
- Day 5: Writing day 1.
- Day 6: Writing day 2.
- Day 7: Publish.
Then start making money. Rinse and repeat.
Can it work???
In theory it can. Anybody can write a book, but getting people to read it or to buy it is the hardest part. It will be interesting to see what direction that the point us in but usually the key is to write what you know.
If the process works and you could create dozens of books over a few years then maybe they see a trickle of revenue from this. If you build good writing habits then you might be able to write bigger and better books that do catch some attention. Like anything it takes a long time to see success. One book isn't going to do anything but multiple books over many years might combine into something worthwhile.
That's the dream anyway.
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Are you willing to really test this? I'm curious to see the results as I've stumbled into a similar topic on coloring books and thought about starting that kind of ''business''. Looking forward for your progress with these ''gurus''
I'm going to give it a good shot anyway. I've seen the coloring book ones but that is never going to bring you very far.
I will follow this course and see if it can be any help to get publishing regularly.
I’d give this a try
I know how to write interesting stories but I’m always lazy
I’d try this out
Keep an eye out for my update post next week. If it is helpful i'll try to pass on the info.
I have a novella, 2 novels, and about 2, or 3 novels worth of short stories which could go up as anthology collections, but they need work before I'd feel confident to consider publishing them, but it's the dream.
All of that has been written while here on Hive, and I have some stuff from before joining.
Writing, coming up with ideas, and seeing it through isn't my problem, going back to fix and edit it afterwards is.
Lot of good content to go with. Have you ever sent some to be edited for publishing and take the hard work out of it?
There are people who can help to get it ready to go.
Not yet, but I did pay someone I know from Hive to do an editing run through, but some stuff came up with him so he hasn't been back to it. He did get about half way through one of the novels and left me some good feedback and notes throughout which I brought into new stuff I was writing.
In fairness, I've had a lot going on over the last while, so I haven't really got the head to fully concentrate on finding an editor yet, but I do have that intention when things calm down a bit. Until then, I'll carry on writing and coming up with stuff and see what happens. I've been keeping some Hive liquid ready to sell which I can use to fund an editor so I'm okay waiting for the price to move a bit.
The biggest blocker is topic for me. I am good with psychology topic but not sure if that would convert for the book sales.
I'm sure that it could at least convert into content. As for making sales from that i have no idea how to go about it.
Hopefully this course can give some pointers to monetizing the content.
I think courses are meant to guide. I tried to be published too over a decade ago, but it didn't work for me. I think you might find some exciting information in this new course, but you might just need your own personal hack to pull the rabbit out of the hat
There is so much content out there that it's hard to stand out. I think it's hard for anybody to be successful in a writing career but there must be some shortcuts to it.
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