I don’t know how many other would-be writers want to earn money online, as compared to earning it in the ‘real’ world, but I just want to earn some money. I’m not really to fussy about where it comes from (has to be legal!), as long as it’s doing something I love.
Well, over the years I’ve been very fortunate to have done jobs that I would have done for virtually nothing. Indeed, as far as my wife is concerned sometimes I did! Working evenings and weekends just because you like doing something is hard for some people to understand. They don’t always get that a vocation is not the same as a job.
I’ve always earned more money, much more, when I’ve followed my passion. The only times I’ve been badly paid have been in the jobs I hated anyway.
So I’m quite pleased with the results of what I’m doing now. I’m now an internet marketer, selling various stuff online and also doing technical work for a bunch of people. Things like script installations and Wordpress installations. A lot of the stuff is easy to do, but here’s the thing.
I am losing count of how many people know it’s easy to set up a script, but just don’t want to. They’d rather spend their time doing the things they do enjoy.
To me, the idea of paying someone to install a script for me would just never enter my head. First, because I can do it myself, but perhaps more importantly, because I enjoy doing it.
Luckily, I’ve made some good online friends doing this and they all have different characters. One of the chaps I’ve met is a journalist and a fiction writer so it’s natural that we’ve discussed writing.
We think we have a simple way for fiction writers to put their work out there, via the internet, and perhaps make a little money. For so many writers the recognition of being read is what the work is really about and any money is secondary. Welcome, but secondary. And I’ve read the advice so many times that you should follow your passion and that’s where the money is, that I’m beginning to believe it.
Another thing I’ve noticed for myself is that I always work harder for a client than I do for myself. Not that I’m lazy, I’m far from that. But somehow, giving value to a client always seems more important to me than finding a better way to make some extra money for myself. So one of the best ways for me to learn something is when somebody needs a job done. I’ll move heaven and earth to find out how to do it and give the client a good service.
To my way of thinking that’s win-win. I get to learn and the client gets a great service at a cheap price.
When we open the online bookstore I’ll have to learn fast how to make it work well. And when it works well amateur authors should be able to make a little money from it.
So pretty soon I hope to be enabling amateur authors to sell their work online in an easy way. And you can bet my stuff will be in there too! Even if I have to sit down finally and start doing the writing I’ve been promising myself for so long!
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