The online writing business requires constant and regular
writing
Many writers do not understand that the online writing business
is very different from the offline writing world. The economics
are totally different and no amount of lobbying and noise will
change that.
Sadly, because of this reason, many good writers have stayed
away from the online writing business while others have priced
themselves out of lucrative assignments from websites, simply
because they want the offline world to be automatically
transferred online.
In the bricks and mortar world of writing, top freelance writers
are accustomed to single writing assignments paying them $300 at
the very minimum. Rates for leading magazines can go up to
$3,000 or even much higher.
Thinking that you can push a webmaster to pay you $3000 for your
writing is just plain day dreaming. The realities online are
very different. For starters, in the offline writing market
there are a few thousand publications paying good rates to
freelancer writers. In the online world there are millions of
potential writing markets (and constantly growing even as you
read this). The challenge in the old world is finding a way to
beat other writers to assignments. In the new online writing
business, the challenge is being able to handle enough clients
and to do enough writing daily to make a good income.
Online writing business will tend to come in volumes and for you
to make money you will need to be a fast writer. There are some
techniques to speed up the writing process (which I deal with in
my free short online writing business course available by
sending an email to writertips at freeautobot.com) but these
technique will only help to speed up a writer who already has a
good speed.
Indications are that as the number of websites and blogs
continue to grow at the current rate, the economics will swing
in favor of the online writing business entrepreneur and rates
should go up as the demand for good writers continues to far
outstrip the supply. Still it is unlikely that a rate of $3000
per article will be common in the foreseeable future.
So the best thing to do is to find a way to make a good steady
income from your online writing business with the current rates
and the current state of affairs. Actually this is not too
difficult. I know online writers who comfortably make $4,000 on
a monthly basis, without too much effort and that is by getting
paid less than $11 on average for their articles.
The online writing business will favor the kind of writer who
leans more towards novel writing rather than the short story or
article writer. This is because a novel writer thrives on
writing every day and trying to increase their daily output.
This is in contrast to the short story writer who waits for
inspiration to write his brief piece at virtually one sitting.
Or the professional freelance article writer who will tend to
spend more time doing research and sending queries to
publications rather than the actual writing work.
The huge advantage that the online writing business entrepreneur
has is that they can use the power of the internet to guarantee
a steady and constant flow of writing jobs which will leave them
with lots of time to do what every writer should enjoy doing the
most - writing.