Comments on: Can you earn money as a writer? http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/ the business and craft of writing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Fiona Veitch Smith http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-69174 Fiona Veitch Smith Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:33:11 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-69174 You need to write for the love of it. Why don't you work through my free online creative writing course and see where it takes you. After that, if you're still keen, I provide critiques of writing (but this is obviously a paid-for service.) You don't need formal training, just talent. Good luck with it. You need to write for the love of it. Why don’t you work through my free online creative writing course and see where it takes you. After that, if you’re still keen, I provide critiques of writing (but this is obviously a paid-for service.) You don’t need formal training, just talent. Good luck with it.

]]> By: Mark S http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-69170 Mark S Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:59:40 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-69170 I have just a quick question. Recently, there has been a mild obsession with wanting to write. Doesn't matter if it is poetry, fictional work, or even a cookbook. I'm just drawn to want to write and / or read. It is an odd sensation. As a youth, I despised reading. Total waste of time. However, middle age crept up and now I can't get enough. My question is rather simple. With no formal literary training, not to mention being late in the literary arts, are there resouces to judge one's work? In other words, I don't want to just fill the Internet with a bunch of poor writing. There is a desire to be good and display quality work. Knowning that I will never be as great as many of you, can you give advice to not tarnish the value of literature? I have just a quick question. Recently, there has been a mild obsession with wanting to write. Doesn’t matter if it is poetry, fictional work, or even a cookbook. I’m just drawn to want to write and / or read. It is an odd sensation. As a youth, I despised reading. Total waste of time. However, middle age crept up and now I can’t get enough. My question is rather simple. With no formal literary training, not to mention being late in the literary arts, are there resouces to judge one’s work? In other words, I don’t want to just fill the Internet with a bunch of poor writing. There is a desire to be good and display quality work. Knowning that I will never be as great as many of you, can you give advice to not tarnish the value of literature?

]]> By: What do writers earn? at The Crafty Writer http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-67900 What do writers earn? at The Crafty Writer Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:08:41 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-67900 [...] what writers earn that attracted writers from all over the web and a bit of a bun fight visit Can you earn money as a writer? If you found this article helpful, please share it on your favourite social site using the [...] [...] what writers earn that attracted writers from all over the web and a bit of a bun fight visit Can you earn money as a writer? If you found this article helpful, please share it on your favourite social site using the [...]

]]> By: Fiona http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-8786 Fiona Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:00:52 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-8786 Hi PA. Tim's right, earning money from poetry is very difficult. It's also very difficult to earn money writing online in general. All of these websites and ads that promise you can earn £30,000 a year are at best misleading, at worst fraudulent! But it's not impossible to earn some money. You have to do it yourself though, no one, particularly not me, can help you. Develop your craft, find markets, submit your work, build your portfolio ... it's simple hard graft. Realise though that online poetry will not pay. Good luck with it. Hi PA. Tim’s right, earning money from poetry is very difficult. It’s also very difficult to earn money writing online in general. All of these websites and ads that promise you can earn £30,000 a year are at best misleading, at worst fraudulent! But it’s not impossible to earn some money. You have to do it yourself though, no one, particularly not me, can help you. Develop your craft, find markets, submit your work, build your portfolio … it’s simple hard graft. Realise though that online poetry will not pay. Good luck with it.

]]> By: Tim Rowe http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-8750 Tim Rowe Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:03:57 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-8750 p a noushad: i am p a noushad,poet,would like to earn income through online writing. Me: Wouldn't we all! I think E E Cummings pretty much covered the all-lower-case-and-unusual-spacing thing, though; I don't think there's much potential there nowadays. Seriously, poetry is probably the hardest form of writing to make money at, and the web is so swamped with really bad poetry that it's just about impossible to get noticed. I think the traditional route of doing readings, self-publishing an anthology of what goes down well at the readings and then selling the anthology at subsequent readings is still the best chance. Although even that route just leaves most aspiring poets with a pile of unsold books and an invoice for the printing. p a noushad:
i am p a noushad,poet,would like to earn income through online writing.

Me:
Wouldn’t we all!

I think E E Cummings pretty much covered the all-lower-case-and-unusual-spacing thing, though; I don’t think there’s much potential there nowadays.

Seriously, poetry is probably the hardest form of writing to make money at, and the web is so swamped with really bad poetry that it’s just about impossible to get noticed. I think the traditional route of doing readings, self-publishing an anthology of what goes down well at the readings and then selling the anthology at subsequent readings is still the best chance. Although even that route just leaves most aspiring poets with a pile of unsold books and an invoice for the printing.

]]> By: p a noushad http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-8743 p a noushad Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:25:46 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-8743 help me to earn money through writing poems online. help me to earn money through writing poems online.

]]> By: p a noushad http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-8742 p a noushad Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:24:35 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-8742 i am p a noushad,poet,would like to earn income through online writing. i am p a noushad,poet,would like to earn income through online writing.

]]> By: Fiona http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-6524 Fiona Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:51:52 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-6524 How very kind of you. All the best with your own writing Jose. Fiona How very kind of you. All the best with your own writing Jose.

Fiona

]]> By: jose rivadulla-rey http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-6522 jose rivadulla-rey Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:14:21 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-6522 you have an amazing story ahead of you, its people like you who give people like me more inspiration to continue, hopefully one day my words and efforts will contribute to someone elses passions, thank you very much. you have an amazing story ahead of you, its people like you who give people like me more inspiration to continue, hopefully one day my words and efforts will contribute to someone elses passions, thank you very much.

]]> By: Copywriting: write to sell at The Crafty Writer http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/comment-page-1/#comment-6400 Copywriting: write to sell at The Crafty Writer Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:20:26 +0000 http://www.thecraftywriter.com/2008/01/01/projected-earnings-and-the-seven-year-itch/#comment-6400 [...] but not earning that much money. (For a lively discussion on how much writers really earn check out Can you earn money as a writer?) With this in mind, I’ve decided I need to expand my commercial copywriting activities. [...] [...] but not earning that much money. (For a lively discussion on how much writers really earn check out Can you earn money as a writer?) With this in mind, I’ve decided I need to expand my commercial copywriting activities. [...]

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