dare double dare, let’s get our work published.

Dare double dare… do it soon.

Great news edits are almost done and the book, and e-book willbe out by end of September!

Should they?

For some writers, they had long since planned to self-publish, but for others it is because they have been told no far too often.  Being told no is a hard thing to accept.  I moon lighted as a literary agent’s “checker.”  This was really just a thing to tell people no without them bothering this agent.

 I think I took this lesson from that experience:  One, you can never spend too much time editing, and two see number one!

Really, if you are going to self-publish, you still need it to be professional.

This is the hardest thing to understand.

If you are self-publishing because you have been told no, you need to go back and fix it up, a first draft is actually just not even a draft, it is mind splat.  A second draft is okay, but I’ve also learned that a fourth draft is good.  it takes time and energy to build your work to the point where, why you self-publish is because it is something that you enjoy…

Not because you were told no once too many time.

A few things to know.

1) Use CreateSpace if you are self-publishing for the first time, and take the time to learn about what you need to do to improve.

2) For the love of GOD edit….

3) I have found a few reasons to look into what a good professional book should look like.  You need to as well.

4) kindle and Nook and other e-book readers are a must to consider.  It costs about $70 if you use it from Create Space and it is something which you will want to have to make money or at the least have good reviews on amazon.com

5) Make sure your expenses are kept to a minimum.

Writing is an art, and a craft, it is a lot of living a life of writing, but it also is about making money that will help you.

Still, the question can be asked, are these online writing sites something that you can consider self-publishing or are they more like simply putting things out?

In a words, yes they are self-publishing as you have the right to build your business any way you want to build it up and to make money.  It also means that your published work is copyright protected, on any of these writing sites.  That is why these writing sites are considered self-publishing.

My latest is about the Saxons of Transylvania.  I must admit I’ve had the most fun with this as I’ve had in a long time.  It can’t get any better.

Expect for writing here and all about Dracula I suppose.  Still it is a fun way to publish and it gives me another means to have a bit of fun.  The key to this place is not to get all worked up when you make less than a penny a day, the key is to have fun and enjoy the ride.

After all your are getting published there.  I am able to be more tougue in cheek there, but be advised that you will have to do a lot of participating since most of what you make is based upon page impressions, and that makes you a bit of money.  Still here’s the question would you write there?

Wikinut– This is an excellent website, you write small pages, between 400 to 1,000 words, then it is checked for content.  You are paid by page impressions.  This is a great first site for most writers, especially those who want to promote their writing and their blogs with online articles. Knowledge of social networking sites is a must here.  The more traffic you get to this site, and more likely you will make money.  The more popular the articles then there is more money.  Your followers are also informed of your newly published pages.

Squidoo– Another great writing site, be advised that it was originally devised for charity so you can make money, but you will find that your lenses (as your mini website is known as) is harder to find or be promoted if there is not a bit of charity percentage given.  It is a bit harder to work with as opposed to wikinut, but still a great site.  You make money based upon overall page ranking, so the higher the page rank the better.  It also helps to have friend vote and like it.

 Hubpages– This is also a great site to try, and like wikinut and squidoo.  You write hubs on various topics that can potentially make you money.  Now they do not pay you directly, but they do pay you if some one clicks on your Google AdSense ads or amazon or eBay.  Please note a bit more knowledge about how the search engines work are a must with this site, if you want to make money or get paid more frequently.  A Mian Key To Success is the type of profile you put up.  This makes all the difference in terms of traffic to your work and making money long-term

 Bukisa-  Another site, similar to wikinut, there used to be an index which you followed that you tells you how much money you can make per 1,000 impressions. However recently they have chenged their format and you will need to have either Google AdSense or Chickita to make moneyw ith them.  The pages are between 200-500 words.

 There you have it will you think of using these websites to make money with?  Would you say no to one and yes to others?

There are of course hundreds of ways to make money with your writing and most people will eventually make money with their work, but the truth is that it takes time to do this.  So, let us take a look at a few blogs and the ways that you can make money with them.

1) Putting Google AdSense ads on your work: Okay for the most part this is an idea which in theory works well.  The only trouble with this is that it does take a long time, and you will have to increase your traffic quite a bit to make money with your blog this way.

2) Links and Traffic:  If you have AdSense, it is a beginning to your money goals.  The key thing is that people must find your blog or know why it is unimportant you and then to them.  Writing has its own challenges, but to make your online business life easier you will have to be willing to add links to your work to get more traffic to come… which in turn makes your money.

3) knowing what Traffic makes you money:  This is as important to you as building links and other means to get traffic to your site.  It is a process, and one which you will need to be serious about.  If you make $5 a month on your website or blog, if you find out which traffic gets you that money you can learn to focus your energies on getting more of that traffic.

4) Knowing why your traffic comes back or does not come back.  Another part to building your business and making money is knowing why.  Why can be as simple as going to say Google Analytics and finding out how many people come to your website or blog, and how long they stay.  It is easy to write a blog, but not knowing why you are getting the traffic you are getting can cause a good blog to be harder to write on.

5) Knowing and improving your money goals:  Sometimes it is a matter of improving your goals, by making them a bit more specific.  Be comfortable with these goals, and be willing to spend time building upon these goals.  It many ways it is like publishing a book, if you  know about each aspect of the process, you will see success sooner.

I also write on hubpages, and that has caused me a little less excitement, since there have been a few copyright issues there.  I do make money there when I publish my work, but a few others feel that anything found on the Internet is “copyable”  sorry to say my hubs are copyrighted.  I’ve used my knowledge of publishing to effect and of course filed a few complaints.

Some are still ongoing, as a few people do not see publishing the way I do…   I suspect money has a lot to do with it, they seem to think money can be made by stealing others work.  No, links nothing.  While I do not mind that people refer others to my publsihed work, I do not like finding out that some steal work… thinking it will make them money.

still, I’ll throw this out, what do you do if you find something of yours is copied, with no reference to you and the work is totally copied?

Are you daring to publish?  Are you busy with your work and forgot something so important to your work?

Do you love your writing… then if you do, you need to at least try to think about being published.

Unfortunately, writers tend to think of networking not in terms of online work, but of “real world” work. This is not the case, as the Internet harnesses the power of billions of traffic to billions of websites. The more you network the more your writing is showcased.  This needs to be done online as well.  This can be as simple as going to your Facebook page and adding a few likes to it, to going on social networking sites and adding links to your work there.  Then there is the level of participation that you decide you want to do with each site.  There are a lot of sites out there so promotion is both easy and complex at the same time.

For example: when we write about a topic on our blog or websites, we network with each other and hopefully others read this blog, or our other online work, which can fun to read, and some times this can be a harder thing to manage with time constraints and new technology. The real effort begins when we as writers decide that our writing needs an online network of readers who believe that our work is of value, which in turn can make us money, and when we publish our work, we know that this network will read our work.

Networking is simple, it is based upon participation but the end result is that you are promoting your work in a very fun way and by doing this without looking overly promotional you will get more people going to read your work and you will build your online business.  Your online business can build your “real world business, but you will need traffic and promotion and the ability to publish a lot of work, in a few different sites.  The choice to make then is what is more challenging the networking and promotion or the ability to write a quality blog or other online work, which will make you money in a reasonable period of time.