What's the most money you have made off of writing, Veeky Forums?

I've made about 70 bucks in two years with my self-published stories. Guess I should be happy, considering I can't bring myself to do any promoting.

Damn. You guys are actually worse than /ic/.

Impressive.

250 bucks for the top thesis in the department.

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Sauce?

I got paid like $100 for writing articles on hearthstone so I guess that

Where do you guys self-publish? Amazon? I feel like Amazon would be extremely full of self-published people if it were easy

woah, another Hearthstone player on Veeky Forums? Want to link to an article? No shame for being video game journalist.

I got a 500 dollar grant to take part in a writing workshop once. The most I've been paid for a freelance article is 250$ USD, but I just finished an article that will be 500$.

Most of the time, I'm getting 150$-190$ for 500-700 words.

I'm doing some copywriting in exchange for a return flight to Malaysia and up to 4 months accommodation there. Fairly sure it's not a scam, I said I'd do it for free but they insisted they had to pay somehow.

I once made 100 dollars letting a guy take pictures of me in various stages of undress.

Yeah I'm not posting the article because it's short steps from the username I wrote under to my real name. It wasn't anything special, some guy saw one of my reddit comments and asked me to write for his site. I wrote two articles about the only decks I knew and then stopped.

Thats fair, I don't post my stuff here either. No need to dox yourself to Veeky Forums, nor reveal to the rest of the world that you use Veeky Forums.

We will forever live in shame.

But I'm surprised you got 100 dollars for video game journalism, I'd have guessed the rates were much lower. What site was it? Maybe I should hustle some hearthstone articles.

It was two years ago, Hearthstone was a lot bigger and primed to grow even more. I think a lot of sites were trying to invest in getting a content base for the long term because there were competitors hiring a ton of low-legend players as well. So I guess it was just a good market.

Could I just copy and paste the sentence "spread honey all over my balls" 1000 times into a book and self publish it on amazon?
How does it work?

you can. There is an obnoxious meme book titled "Something Something about Democrats" and the entire book is blank pages.

In erotica, it is often common to buy a book and find that it is 55 pt font, so 500 words takes up 80 pages or someshit.

I published a couple of poems in a christian magazine and got about $15 but i felt bad cos i played it up a lot so i gave it away

A rich friend of mine paid me to read Wikipedia articles and write easy to memorize versions of them based on bullet points. $15 an hour for a few months.

This is why you guys should get into law.

Literally get paid $100 hr just to read or write shit.

500

In general? More than $100

To date, over $50,000.

Fetish writer.

Kind of ashamed of it but whatever.

about $4000 lifetime on freelance music columns

I made $60 writing some half-gook's econ paper in college

I made a little over 200 bucks writing smut for this asian chick who would get wet over how I would customize them for her

How does one get into smut writing?

Should've, but I fell for the "only smart guys can study law, just b urself ;^)" meme. Since starting my own business I've had to read up on laws and court decisions and it's the dumbest, most overpaid shit ever.

Lump sum for one work? $25k GGLA for a novel, Fiction.

Write smut; sell it; write it more; then sell it more. Continue like this.

I just won a short story competition with a $1245 prize.

$30. i had a short story in a collection by Circlet Press called "technosex".

that is all.

I used to get weed from a guy in exchange for writing papers for his classes at the local HBCU. Does that count?

Where? Do you take request?

£500 per day for a six month contract
i've had higher daily rates but they have tended to be for short jobs or commissions

Sauce please.

>amazon.com/dp/B01M7S2Z0R
>That one customer review

Your fooling no one.

Hahaha I must be schizophrenic then because I contacted the person who wrote that review just a few days later and since then we've been swapping emails just about every day. He's already bought the sequel and has loved that one as well. He also has a blog which I occasionally write guest articles for, of course plugging my survivalism/firearm-related books at the end of said articles. Normally I do it when I have a promotion on the go, like right now with the first Living amongst the Dead book being up for free.

>Zombie Survival

I haven't made any, b-but I've learned a lot
h-haha

>amazon.com/Another-One-Please-Dull-Pain-ebook/dp/B06XRZVRKS/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1490779738&sr=1-6

>amazon.com/When-Her-Means-Yes-Sometimes-ebook/dp/B01MSKQJ5S/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1490779738&sr=1-7

holy...

No educated person wants to read zombie rehashes, familia. Try reading some crazy shit like Tsukihime for inspiration.

Yeah, needless to say, those are my worst-selling ones. Still, it was fun to write, and I think they're not bad in their own right.

I don't care if the people who read my stuff are educated or mentally autistic, really. I'm not writing to try and advance the modern view of literature or to try and create the next philosophical masterpiece which will influence thought for the next several centuries. I write because I love to write, and surprisingly enough my Living amongst the Dead book is steadily increasing in sales. Firearm Valhalla isn't doing too bad either, and the sequel Living amongst the Dead: Dark Days is also off to a respectable start. So you can say and believe whatever you may. I'll continue to write my fiction, and I'll continue to love to write my fiction, no matter what some parts of Veeky Forums thinks of it.

Another update. Got another sale for Living amongst the Dead:Dark Days this morning. So I've earned over $25 US this month though about $21 of that has been gained between March 13-29. That's over $35 Canadian for the month, or almost $30 for those 17 days. Almost $2 a day, which if I can maintain it, and I do believe I can, is probably about $600 a year. That's essentially a free month's rent per year simply for doing something I love.

Seriously, if anyone reading this has a book idea that they've wanted to write for a long time but never got around to it, just do it. I've wanted to write my realistic zombie survival novel for something like 5-10 years. I finally did it, and even if it never sold well I'd be proud of it none the less. I can give tips on how to self-publish it, but really there's LOADS of videos on Youtube showing how to do it. Check out Derek Murphy or Tim Knox, they have a lot of highly informative vids you can watch. There's a MASSIVE learning curve in self-publishing, but it's not impossible, and if you're a good enough writer than you can indeed start making a bit of money from it in time. From everything I've heard, most self-published authors would be lucky to make $100 in their first year so I seem to be a little bit ahead, but I've been writing as a hobby for almost a decade and a half so I've already got something of a boost in terms of writing abilities.

Don't write for money though; write because you love to write; because you're passionate about it. If you write for money, then chances are you're going to disappoint yourself quickly. My first book was self-published just over 5 months ago, and I started writing books just over 7 months ago, yet I have not yet received a penny. I think within the next few days I'll get my first payment, but it's literally only going to be about $5 maybe. My next payment will be in about 3 month's time which will be higher, but not by much; I haven't made a whole Hell of a lot of money between January-March so I might get $40 Canadian or something like that in late June/early July. Meanwhile in that time, I'll be writing more, self-publishing more, increasing my viewer base and exposure via promotions and marketing, so by the time I get paid for April-June in late October/early November, I'll theoretically be getting much more money. Still not enough to write full-time, I imagine, but I'll be well on my way.

Most self-published authors don't manage this much, this quickly though. So write that book, enjoy writing it, and just keep writing. Unless you 'strike gold' as I call it and end up being the next J K Rowling with a mega-successful first book publication, then it will probably take A LONG time before you start making money, but if you're passionate enough and good enough, it will happen eventually. Just keep in mind that you might never be a full-time author. It's something I had in mind starting out; "I might never make money from this, but it's damn fun."

>tfw still have the integrity not to be writing genre fiction for the $2 ego boost

I feel a deep, bubbling antipathy for you

I'm sorry to hear that, but I love writing, and I don't intend on ever stopping. Especially since thus far I've gotten almost nothing but support and words of encouragement even though my own family and IRL friends don't yet know about the books themselves, though I have told some that I've self-published a few books. In about a month's time I'll do another promotion with my first 4 books being free and my 5th being at a discount. By then I may very well have a 6th book but I don't yet know 100% what it will be or what I will do with it, but it will probably be a third book in the LatD series. I'll likely bring it up once it happens; who doesn't like the opportunity to get some free books? If you think they'd all probably be crap then you don't have to get any of them, but some people on Veeky Forums have complimented me on my work. Not many, but some, particularly on my opening of Firearm Valhalla even though that's a book I practically wrote with /k/ in mind.

To each their own I suppose. Sorry to hear that pursuing my passion gives you a deep-seating hatred for me... I guess it doesn't help that I had to look up the word 'antipathy' just to make doubly sure that I knew what it means. It would have seriously been hilarious though if I took it as a sign of affection so started thanking you for your support.

Based.

Keep it up user.

Is there a market for it? I know people who make furry porn artwork are disgustingly well paid, but I can't see there being an equivalent market for fiction.

Thanks, just gotta get over this God damn flu first. First time in a long time that I've been sick. By the by, I got another eReader sale along with some KENP pages, so now I'm at $4 CAD today. What's that, $1400 per year if I can maintain it? That's two month's rent plus money for booze! Might not be a whole Hell of a lot in the big picture, but considering it's basically what I'm getting just for doing something fun, it's fucking awesome. I mean seriously, writing is just about as much fun as playing videogames, and I fucking love videogames. Imma try figuring out a start to LatD3, see what I can come up with. Who knows, maybe I'll start it now even though I'm still sick. If I can get it started soon and the ideas are forthcoming then I could easily pump out a solid 5000 words before the day's out. It could be more, but being sick, it's probably going to be slowed down somewhat.

I think the way it works is you write short stories (3500 words or less) that can easily be written in one sitting. You take that, and you put it on KDP Select so that people who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited can read it on there. You get paid for page reads. You write them, you write A LOT of them, and try to cover a bunch of different genres. Incest, interracial, LGBT, rape, historical fiction, fantasy, western, and so on and so forth. In time, theoretically, you can start getting LOTS of page reads which leads to a fair bit of income.

That's not my kind of thing, but it sounds to me like a decent little strategy provided you're still a half-decent good writer. I mean, if you can barely make a full sentence without a grammatical error, consistently lack capitalization, and often have run-on sentences... you're not going to have a good time of it. Neither is your readers. I prefer writing novels, or at least novellas and novelettes, so even though I can see potential in making money that way I don't really bother with it myself. I tried writing some erotica with "When her No means Yes" but even that turned out to be a small novel. JUST over 40,000 words, about as small a novel can be without being a novella, though I didn't do that with intent. I think I consider it my worst book, but I still like the characters I wrote, I like the story, but I don't think I did well with the beginning and that can really kill a book.

200€ for a Translation of dance competition rules.

>No shame for being video game journalist.

Say something nice about her and I'll give you sauce. And since you guys are good at writing it better be impressive! :^)

Your eyes are blinding diamonds among the astral clouds in the face of God.

Now show me those melons.

>inb4 humorless atheist whomst've gives denial based on God

That's good.

Let's hear one more then you'll get your sauce.

Alright, I'm not fucking joking, I just got ANOTHER fucking sale for Living amongst the Dead: Dark Days! That's almost $7 Canadian I've made so far today! Also, of the free copies of the original Living amongst the Dead, one has gone to Italy! During my last promotion with my first 3 books going for free (for the eReader/Kindle version of course), I ended up having 2 free copies downloaded in Japan and 3 free copies downloaded in Denmark! Also at least 1 in Australia and 1 in Brazil! Naturally most went to the US with another large bunch going to UK and then to a smaller extent Canada, but it's none the less incredible that there are digital copies of my books all around the globe. To my knowledge, the only continents that digital versions of my books haven't been are Africa and Antarctica. This is so fucking cool... this is gonna happen, and I'm gonna bloody well MAKE it happen. I'm going to be a full-time author someday. FUCK YEAH!

doing legal research for a firm isnt that literary dude

Ran->Sem: Hakudaku Delmo Tsuma no Miira Tori

something a bit under 1000e. Pretending to be a girl online/ a professional liar isnt a full time job for me

I helped this russian immigrant chick with her english homework in 9th grade and she sucked me off in the school toilet if that counts

stop promoting your book here, you mongrel

>legal research

No one does that shit anymore, bruh.

BookS. Plural. Also, it's relevant to the thread. Not only that but in being so new to the self-publishing thing, I enjoy discussing the matter. I even went into length on a method of trying to make money via making short story eroticas of a wide variety of genres to give quick fixes to probably mostly lonely housewives who want something to schlick to since they've finished all the 50 Shades books for the umpteenth time. Not only that, but who are youmst calling a mongrel? Learn to utilize capitalization and proper ending punctuations, peasant.

But nah, I do think I'm probably getting obnoxious at this point, I'll tone down the shilling. But hey, I DID mention that one of my books are going for free today so it's not like it's ALL shilling. The free promotion ends today though, tomorrow the eReader/Kindle version of Living amongst the Dead will be $0.99 again, so if you want it you best get it quick before it expires in a few hours. 100% free until March 30th for the Kindle/eReader version!

that's $15 if I ever saw it

I once made $500 writing a college term paper for the daughter of an African warlord.

I never made money directly from writing, but made lots and lots indirectly from it, as a tool.

You've piqued my curiosity...

myanimelist.net/character/46677/Riko_Ichinose

I got a couple of imported Hershey bars for helping a girl with her homework.

Most productive literary work Ive ever done

Basically being a shill for political/financial orgs.

Probably my $148k scholarship to university, desu

why did they waste such a hot character on such an awful hentai

>Most of the time, I'm getting 150$-190$ for 500-700 words.
For writing what, and how often?

$400 writing an admissions paper for some kid going to UC berkley -- he got in.

I once got reddit gold for a long comment

Grabbed Living amongst the Dead with Kindle Unlimited, I'll check it out and let you know what I thought.

Right on, thanks. I don't know if many readers realize this, but when you read a book on Kindle Unlimited then money still goes towards the book. It averages to be about .47-.5 cents per page. So if you read 200 pages on Kindle Unlimited and the author is still alive and receiving royalties, then they get roughly $1 US. Anyways, thanks, and I hope you enjoy it! I've got my other 4 books on Kindle Unlimited too so you can read those as well if you want, including the sequel to Living amongst the Dead (Living amongst the Dead: Dark Days). There's also an action (Firearm Valhalla (which I dedicated to /k/), a drama (Another One Please, to Dull the Pain), and well, an erotica which thus far has easily been my least-selling book. When her 'No' means 'Yes'. I still think it's a half-decent story in its own right, but all the same, it'd probably be best that you avoid that one. I doubt it's your kind of thing. Anyways, thanks again for taking interest in my work. I hope you find something that interests you! Though whether you do or don't you can always look up my books and scroll through the pages to the end to throw me some cash. Just Saiyan!

I used to write for Cracked.com. Made around 250 for 3 articles

No shilling. Just an update; I'm now at $31.22USD for the month of march, which is $41.66CAD. About $26.01 of that was made between March 13-30 (today) which is $34.71CAD in 18 days, well, more like 17.4 days since the 30th is only just starting where I am. This is from paperback sales, eReader sales, and KENP page reads. That's where it's estimated. Divided the number of pages by 0.47 since it seems as though it averages at .47-.5 cents US per page though it varies month by month so I might make a LITTLE bit more than this estimate.

Now it's pretty awesome that I've been maintaining a toonie per day for over 2 weeks. I'd say that's fucking amazing for someone who's only been a self-published author for about 5 months and 10-11 days. I anticipate, however, that my sales will decline in the coming weeks until my next promotion in about a month from now, at which point I'll probably have another book written. So chances are I won't maintain this $2 a day that I've had going on, but we'll see. I'll continue to write and to self-publish. If I weren't so damn sick I would have had much more than just 1500 words written yesterday. I might try to write some more today but I feel like absolute shit with this flu or cold or whatever. Once I get better I'll start having days with 4000-6000 words written so it won't take long before my next book is done. Hopefully I can have a day similar in productivity to March 14th when I wrote 15,500 words. That was a good day... well... kinda...

My payment for Oct/Nov/Dec is only around $4.50CAD, and for Jan/Feb/March (which I'll be paid for at the end of June) will be about $43-44CAD at this rate. I'm looking forward to what I'll earn in April/May/June though, which I'll be paid for at the end of October just a little over year after having become a self-published author.

>at the end of October
Actually the end of September. Fucking derp. Also another derp; all my paperbacks are on CreateSpace instead of Kindle even though Kindle handles both now. Kindle's system is paying you every 3 months, but CreateSpace's system is paying you monthly... at least... when you've made at least $100. It's also separate for dollars, pounds, and euros. So I could have 99 pounds but I can't get it until I get 100, but actually I need 108 because 8 is spent on sending the cheque (they won't give direct deposit to Canada for some reason, which has a different system if memory serves), but meanwhile if I have that 99 pounds I could keep getting the $100US payment as I continue to amass $108 for the cheque to be sent bu that 99 pounds will continue to just sit there until I get another 9 pounds.

So technically it could even be 107 pounds I guess but until I get that last one I have to wait. Kind of fucking annoying, and also wastes some of the money I earn just to send me a cheque. So although I have to wait for my paperback payment, and although I won't get the $43 or so that I anticipate at the end of June (unless I also get $108 on CreateSpace in which case I'll get another $100 on top of that... unlikely), I have still made $41.66CAD so far in the month of March. It's just unfortunate that it'll be slightly broken up in two different payment methods.

What's your inspiration for writing stories?

I won $30 in a high school essay contest once

$50 for placing third in an essay writing contest when i was in high school.

Whatever comes to mind. It all started years ago when at some point probably 5-10 years back I wanted to write a really realistic and nitty-gritty zombie survival novel one day that included some actual aspects of survivalism. I suppose part of my inspiration were the Hatchet/Brian's novels by Gary Paulson that I read as a kid, but anyways, I finally decided to sit down and write it in late August 2016. I had the story and about 77,000 or so words written in less than a week. I then spent a couple months editing, which turned out to be largely wasted time since there were inherent grammatical errors in my writing that I didn't even know about so in January/February I spent another long while editing that book to fix those mistakes and now I know not to make those mistakes. The final version of it is pretty much perfect now, in my eyes. Perhaps a LITTLE too sex-driven towards the end, but it all goes in with the story and character development in my opinion. Oh yeah, and I also seem to ADD more than I TAKE AWAY in editing; it's currently something like 81,000 words.

I'm more of a "discovery writer" than an "outline writer". I get an idea and I roll with it, rather than plotting out the story first. The story just sort of unravels as I go, as ideas come to me, and sometimes I'm even surprised at the turns it can take. Very fun! I honestly think I enjoy writing just about as much as I enjoy reading! Even though I'm sick as a bloody dog, I got another 1000 words written, so I'm pecking away at it. Once I get healthy again I'll start cranking out page after page after page. What about you? Do you write?

it's so funny when failures try to lecture people on how to succeed

roughly 1.4million over my lifetime as a technical documentation writer.

is this bait? am I falling for it?

>If I weren't so damn sick I would have had much more than just 1500 words written yesterday. I might try to write some more today but I feel like absolute shit with this flu or cold or whatever. Once I get better I'll start having days with 4000-6000 words written so it won't take long before my next book is done. Hopefully I can have a day similar in productivity to March 14th when I wrote 15,500 words.
goddamit I fell for it didnt I?

I'd only fail if I stopped writing now. Only 5 months and 11-12 days or so into being a self-published author and I'm already starting to make money. Most self-published authors don't even make $100 in their first year, but I've already made almost half that and my sales are slowly but steadily increasing. More promotions will expand my readerbase.

You'd have to tell me how it's bait.

You too. I realize that most authors say that 1000 words a day is good, but I can honestly do so much more than that. I'm sick yet I had 1000 words written in just a half hour's time from 12:25-12:55. Being sick is really killing my imagination though so I can't go on a nice 3-4 hour session like I sometimes enjoy doing. I can write about 60-80 words per minute when my ideas are flowing nicely, and I've been obsessing over grammar for I don't even know how many years. Seriously, even texts or when chatting with friends I have to write as grammatically correct as I can manage. I don't push them into doing it; I'm not a grammar Nazi, but I like to try and perfect my grammar through repetition, so my 1st drafts really are quite clean.

I'm not about to compare myself to Mozart; nobody's going to be reading my shit 200+ years from now, but he could write a musical piece and make it PERFECT without making any alterations. As he wrote it, it just completed itself. I believe I can do the same, though still I do some editing for some of my books (LatD series mostly) and even the ones I self-published with just the first draft I intend to read-over someday to make sure it's clean. Someone already read AOP,tDtP and he loved it, even though drama really isn't his thing. Didn't mention any grammatical errors.

I feel I'm breaking some sort of Veeky Forums rule, like genre fiction is cancer and people should be ashamed to rear or write it, yet I'm unabashedly proud of my stuff and optimistic for the future.

You're a cool dude doing what you like. of course /ic/ hates you

Do you imagine the zombies to be African American in order to help the violent scenes?

Oh shit... I actually never even seen that board before. I mostly just stick to /k/ and to a lesser extent Veeky Forums. They seem to for the most part really enjoy my stuff over there, as you'd expect considering ALL my books thus far include firearms to some degree or another, but two of them only have a brief little scene or two with them. Three of my books have firearms almost always present, and this sixth one I'm working on now, yet another sequel to the LatD series I've got started, is of course also going to have quite a bit of firearm stuff in it.

Thanks for being supportive. Next month when I get my third promotional thing on the go, I'll be sure to bring it up at some point in Veeky Forums; who doesn't like free books? My first four will be free, fifth one will be heavily discounted, and my sixth will probably be finished within 2-3 weeks. I won't want to put that brand new book up for free at the same time, and I also have to wait 30 days before I can use Kindle Countdown, so that will have to remain at its full $2.99 price which I'll be putting it at. So the free ones are there to take by anyone who wants em, meanwhile for those who likes my stuff they can buy the more recent books if they want. I don't exactly get a HUGE amount of sales, as you can imagine, but each and every one of them motivates me to keep going, and for the past week I've been getting 1-3 sales daily, plus getting KENP page reads most days, so there's been a lot of motivation to go around! Cheers!