4 Ways to Get Paid for Writing (And to Help You Quit That Job)

I’ll never forget how I used to feel at my old job.

Each morning, I’d trudge down the hallway and pass the spare bedroom that doubled as an occasional home office.

“Just imagine,” I’d think. “Imagine if, rather than heading downstairs, out of the door and into the car to drive to a job I increasingly despised, I’d instead turn left and enter that home office. Imagine if, rather than deal with the inner turmoil of team management and a future I had little control over, I could instead write all day. And get paid for it. On my terms.”

I’m now doing that and have been for the last five years. Writing is, largely, what I do for a living. It’s not the only source of income (diversification is vital), but it forms a significant part of it.

But I was wrong. It’s not some kind of nirvana.

Let me explain.

Think very carefully if you want to be a copywriter

When I first started my writing business, it was on the basis of being a copywriter.

A little secret for you: I had zero experience in copywriting, bar writing the copy for a few web pages at my old job. I just loved writing, had blogged personally for some time and assumed those…