Start Here If You Are A Newbie

Originally this blog was meant to have lot less posts and to serve simply as a place I can send newbies with too many basic questions.  Over time I ended up having too many posts with deals which expired and other nonsense cluttering up things.

Quite frankly I do not really have time to keep updating blogs like this one with any regularity. So I'm making this post and linking bunch of other useful posts/pages you should look through rather than scroll through rest.

To open with, one thing you MUST understand before you begin is that you do not read a book, or a blog post or some WSO and turn around and start seeing thousands of dollars coming your way.

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What Is A Freelance Writer Worth?

Freelance Writer's Dream

Yesterday in two very different Facebook Groups I am a member of there was a very similar discussion. I did not really participate in either as by the time I saw them, things turned pretty ugly. One group was RPG/Games Writers and  someone was asking for folks to write 300 word sample in hopes of 2000 word gig for 1 cent per word. The other was a Marketing Group and person did not want to pay anything but wanted people to come post 'viral' (his word choice) content on his blog, which was brand new and had no content at all, for 'exposure'.

Rather than get involved in ridiculously hostile flame war two sides of writing (those wanting to get content for as little as possible and those who want to get paid like they were best in the business) I chose to write a blog article.

My point of view is as a writer. I write two dozen blogs, I have around 200 books at the moment on Amazon (variety of genres and pen names), I copywrite both for my own products and for sales pages of my joint venture partners, and first really big money I made was by selling rights for two books I wrote while still a kid.