Writers — You’ll have to make peace with this if you want to make money

When I first made the decision that I wanted to write for a living, I had no idea what that meant. I initially thought I could just write books and that would be that. Sometimes I miss those days of complete naivete.

The reality was that if I wanted to make money as a writer, enough money to make a living, I would have to write things I didn’t necessarily like. I would have to learn different types of writing that I didn’t even recognize was a thing until I started educating myself.

I sum all of this up in an article titled “To make money writing, you have to make concessions.”

Read it below and let me know what you think:

TO MAKE MONEY WRITING, YOU HAVE TO MAKE CONCESSIONS

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