Writing By Numbers and How to Make It Pay

There’s something that I’ve said many times about earning money from writing. And it’s so important I’m going to say it again.

If you want to make a living as a writer, you must write.

A favourite writer of mine, Dean Wesley Smith, put it more simply when he said that more products mean more money.

For years now, I’ve seen wanna-be writers asking, “How much money can I make from writing a book?” How much? Not much. Not with that attitude.

Writers, like artists and musicians, do what they do because they love what they do, not because they think they can become rich from doing one thing, like writing one book.

Where would J K Rowling be today if she only wrote one book? Or Stephen King? Or Arthur Conan Doyle if he only wrote one Sherlock Holmes novel?

None of these writers could have imagined how rich and famous they would become, nor did they care. They just wanted to write and, if they were lucky, their books would earn them enough money so that they could write for a living.

And why wouldn’t they want that?

If you’re a writer, writing isn’t hard. I mean, sure there are days when you don’t feel like writing, but that happens with any job. But the reason you don’t want to work isn’t because it’s hard; it’s just that you don’t feel like starting, which can happen with anything.

I’ll use this morning as an example to show you what I mean. This morning I knew I had to clean through the whole house. It’s something I do once a week, and today was the day to do it. But I didn’t feel like doing it. I woke up not knowing what day it was, and as I became fully conscious, I realised it was my designated cleaning day, so I had the whole house to clean.

I mentally protested through breakfast, but then I began the cleaning anyway. I plugged in my earbuds and listened to an audio book as I worked. It didn’t take long to become absorbed in what I was listening to, and a couple of hours later, I was finished.

After a short coffee break, I then mentally protested about planting my butt in my writing chair, but I went to my writing room anyway. After a quick look in my diary to see what I had to work on and rereading a bit of what I’d written the day before, I soon found myself deep into my writing.

You see, cleaning and writing aren’t difficult. Anyone can clean a house. It’s not rocket science, and writing is something I do all the time. It was just my motivation that was lacking. I was missing the motivation to get started.

The secret (if that’s what you want to call it) to earning money as a writer is to keep writing and producing. Because the more products you have, the more you can sell.

So, keep writing and producing.

And every day, make sure you get started, no matter what your mood.

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