The Four Principles that Transformed My Writing into Content that Earns Money

Learn How to Write Articles that Produce Income

Writing might seem like an easy way to make money, and for some people it is. For me, it has taken years of study, practice, and trial and error to become a decent writer who can cover topics that consistently earn. I’ve always considered writing to be a skill that could make me money, and I ended up earning a degree in Technical Writing because I enjoy the craft. As I started pursuing a career in writing, blogging was nothing more than a way for me to build a portfolio and research new ideas. While I blogged on and off over the years, in the past seven months blogging has evolved into a side hustle that is earning me hundreds of dollars a month!

Getting noticed on Medium opened the door for me to work with other bloggers and companies. Once I built a body of work, found an audience and earned some credibility, companies started reaching out to me to create content for their sites. Through a lot of hard work, I turned my passion for writing into real money.

If you’ve decided writing seems right for you, use these four principles to come up with a strategy for writing content that earns money.

In the beginning, I simply wanted to write inspiring content and share interesting ideas. It wasn’t about money because I never earned any. Before I started writing on Medium, I tried my hand at creating blogs in various niches. Towards the end of college around 2011, I started a Futurist blog and wrote about things like the Singularity, space travel, and brain computer interfacing. It didn’t get much traffic and I eventually got tired of researching futurist topics so I turned to blogging about video games. That generated more traffic, but I didn’t understand how to monetize so my site never made any money.

During the span of 2012–2017, I made several blogs under different niches using platforms like WordPress. I created a blog about Writing and Rhetorical Theory, one or two about Political Satire, a blog focused on my life and professional portfolio, and even an Affiliate Marketing blog to sell beef jerky! No…

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