How to make money writing

Or that you want to get to be a professional writer and to live on it, or simply you want to make an extra money in your free time to do something that you know how to do very or, the following list could serve you as guide to know how how to make money being done what as much it gets passionate to you, that is to write.

To write a book

The first and more obvious form to make money writing consists of writing a book.

In order to publish a book, the usual thing is that, once culminated this one, a proposal is sent (along with a copy or they summarize of the book) to all the possible publishing houses, with the hope of they approve which it and they decide to publish it.

Nevertheless, instead of to publish it through one editorial, we can choose to design it and print it we ourself in the press, and soon try to sell it in local, kioscos bookstores, stores of supermarket, etc.

Also, our book does not have why to be a book of 200 pages or to be a novel, but we can begin to write and to publish a small story, a manual, a guide, a poemario, a recipe book.

To write e-book

An alternative to write a printed book is to write e-book or electronic book.

Once writing e-book, we sell through a page Web, where the clients can unload it in format Word or pdf, previous payment with credit card through some to pass it of payment PayPal type, or by means of any other mode of payment.

We can sell ours e-book in our own page Web, or sell it through other sites, that it allows.

An alternative is pages such as Lulu or Bubok, where we raised our book (or a novel, a story, a manual, a guide, a poemario, etc.) in format Word or PDT, and they are in charge to sell it in digital format or, even, to sell and to give the book printed in paper.

To write for third parties

Another form to make money writing consists of writing for third parties, or for a newspaper, a magazine, a page Web, etc.

We can dedicate to us to write articles, reviews, columns, advertizing material, etc.; and to work or like formal workers of a company, where we receive a pay, or to be free workers and to obtain benefits on the basis of articles or works that we do, or to the results that we obtain.

In order to begin we can look for companies or publishers who are asking for writers, or send our proposal (including some of our better works) to some local publishers.

An alternative is to write articles or reviews in Internet in sites such as Shvoong or Knol, where we gained a percentage or commission by the publicity that these sites receive the advertisers.

To create a Web site

And, finally, another one of the main forms to make money writing, consists of creating a Web site, or an article page, a digital magazine, blog, etc., and making money by the publicity that we place in her, or the products that we sell.

As far as the publicity, we can sell spaces where the advertisers place his banners or announcements in exchange for an amount of money, or affiliate themselves with some system as Adsense that allows us to place contextual announcements, where mainly we make money by the clicks that the visitors do in these announcements.

And as far as selling products, we could sell our own e-books, or sell products of third parties, where we gain a percentage or commission by each sale that we realize.

He is possible to stand out that to be able to make money with a Web site, the main requirement is to have a great amount of visits; the main form to obtain it is constantly adding new contents, and trying that these are of good quality.