As promised a week or so back, here is the second installment of Monetize Me!, my search for something to do for money. This installment is in the form of simple logical statements.
- I need a living wage.
- Local freelance journalism and little local books don’t supply this.
- It’s not just me. Others with far better self-selling skills are also finding freelance writing to be well nigh impossible as a career.
- Yet when I explain my situation to well-meaning friends and acquaintances, both online and in person, they invariably suggest “cool” new writing topics, without any idea how, or to whom, these works could be sold. (“I know! You could write about….”)
- Suggesting “more of the same” won’t do the trick, because the same isn’t working for me.
- Yet many of you know me only from these works, and imagine them to be the whole of my identity. Some of you see me as “A Writer” a lot more strongly than I do.
- But I can do other things. Many other things. This series of posts will explore them.
- Before we go any further, an additional clarification: Money is the ONLY ultimate goal of this endeavor. Not “exposure.” Not web hits. Not publicity for the low-earning things I already do. I need actual monetary income. Get it? Good.