Get Paid to Write

What if you could make an income from your writing every month?

In December of 2010, I decided to conducted an experiment. What if I started charging a monthly fee for access to my deepest, rawest, and most intricate writing?

This experiment changed the direction of my writing business forever. Why? Because a small group of my biggest fans now subscribe to Evolving Your Digital Work. The magic of this formula is this: I get to write what I want, when I want, and every month I make a guaranteed income stream.

Many people have asked me: how do I get paid to write?

It's hard to write a book, but it's an even bigger shift towards writing in an episodic format. The shift is largely in an internal one. The strategies we used in the past don't work anymore. It's time to untether from how we used to expect to be compensated, in order to move into the future of digital work.

In the modern world, writing Letters is the perfect way to get paid to write. The trouble is that this is a new approach, which requires a new set of skills and a new state of mind.

What if a small group of your blog readers or the people who you interact with on social media, gave you less than the cost of a cup of coffee every month?

Paid writing by the numbers

40 subscribers paying $25 a month is $1,000 a month. 333 subscribers paying $25 a month is $100,000 a year. 100 subscribers paying $17 is $1,700 a month. 490 subscribers paying $17 is $100,000 a year.

It would only take 1,700 subscribers paying $49 a month to make one million dollars a year. Now, that's something I haven't achieved. Is it a dream I'm living for? Hell yes.

No one is taking money from you when you distribute your writing in this way. There are no middle men. The only person who can stop you from getting paid to write is you.

What you'll learn

You'll know how to do with confidence and elegance by the end of Get Paid to Write...

• How to price your writing right.
• How to craft episodic content.
• How to find readers willing to pay for your writing.
• How to harness writing technologies of the modern age.
• How to discover what your audience needs.
• How to find more followers.
• How to entice readers to go deeper.
• How to incentivize readers to stick around until they're confident enough to become a streaming income customer.
• How to choose what to post publicly, and what to withhold for your paid work.
• Why no one reads your Letter (and how to change that.)

Getting Paid to Write isn't for everyone

Not everyone will be a good fit for Get Paid to Write. Get Paid to Write isn't for you if:

• You're not a writer (this isn't for non-writers.)
• You want to learn how to write (this isn't the place to learn how to write or improve your craft.)
• You want to learn how to blog (this isn't about blogging.)
• You want to learn how to write a book (or get a book deal.)
• You already are making $1,000 a month of subscription income from your writing (congrats!)
• You don't want to work hard to make an income as a writer (if you're lazy, this isn't for you.)

There's nothing wrong with these things. I've written books and I'm writing books now, but this isn't about books. I write a blog every single day, but this product isn't about blogging. There have been times in my life when I didn't want to get paid to write, so it's fine to continue to write for free, if you want to.

However, if you're willing to do the work, Get Paid to Write might be for you.

Ev Bogue's work in online publishing has been featured on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Guardian UK, and The Huffington Post. Ev has spoken about publishing online at Stanford University. Ev has worked in blogging at New York Magazine and Gawker Media.