31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 26

Know Your Value.

Your writing ability has a value, both intrinsically and commercially.

Whether you write books or marketing copy, poetry, short stories or essays, your words can be a source of financial compensation as well as a method of building your writing brand.

But this requires you to take off your writing hat and put on your bookkeeper bonnet.

If you are investing time and money in your writing career, make sure that your decisions have a solid financial basis. Writing for corporate cli...