Ev BogueOctober 5, 2011
In December of 2010, I started to realize that some of my writing was dropping too deep for the public web.
I was writing about some difficult stuff at the time about humanity and technology. The writing was both close to my heart, and also sought to look into some of the issues I was seeing around how technology and humanity were finding themselves intertwined.
A segment of my writing was getting complicated, and some people stopped 'getting it'. Non-fans were getting scared and frustrated with some of the things that I was writing about. I needed a new outlet to publish my work.
In the months since, I've started to realize that reading things isn't just easy and hard. Sometimes I write things that are private, I keep that writing to myself. Other times I write invitations and introductions, I publish these to the free daily letter and my blog.
When I write something that feels too deep, too personal, too complex, or too intense for the public web, then I publish it to Evolving Your Digital Work.
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Evolving Your Digital Work started as a side project. I'd been publishing ebooks to the Internet, and making a pretty decent income while I was at it. Ebooks are definitely one way to publish, and bring in income online.
When I think about the books I've written, they've all answered as completely as they can a question that I continue to get from my readers. I write a book when I have an opportunity to answer a question in a package of 20,000ish words.
Letters are different than ebooks. They're a form of writing that's deeper than what I can write on the public web, but they're also episodic, so they travel through time with me. The ideas that I write in my letters grow as I grow.
In a way, I had to experiment with the work in order for it to figure out what need it filled. So, I launched. I didn't know if 0 people would sign up or 333.
At first a handful of people signed up. Most of these people were people who'd been reading me online for awhile. Then 20, 30, 40 people. Within the month, I was making $1,000 a month from my letter.
Less than a year after I started writing it, the letter, Evolving Your Digital Work, is my primary source of income.
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When I get asked what the difference is between my public web presence and the work on the Letter? These days I answer with this:
The public work is simple, the letter is complex. The public work is what, the letter is how. The public work is surface, the letter is deeper.
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I get a lot of questions about how to get paid to write. I've given away a lot of information on how to do this already. Still, many people are interested.
Getting paid to write is an on-going question, one that I don't have a complete answer to. But I'm discovering that it's not just about the answers to this question that matter. It's also the questions that I ask each day: how can I get paid more to write?
I want to give an evolution assist to a small group of people who want to earn recurring income from their writing. This is why I'm announcing Get Paid to Write.
Get Paid to Write will help you learn:
- How to price your writing right.
- How to craft episodic content.
- How to find readers willing to pay for your writing.
- How to find more followers.
- How to entice readers to go deeper.