Little ways to make more money by writing, Part One.

The following are two suggestions for brand new freelance writers who are trying to build multiple revenue streams with their work.

1st:

Check out Freedomwithwriting.com. This is a website that lists publishers of all genres looking for manuscripts. They also list contests, grants, and guest-blogging positions. They only include publishers that pay and that do not charge reading fees. Payment for these various opportunities range from $30-$50,000. I would likely not have eaten lately if not for this resource.

2nd:

Consider getting a Smashwords account and self-publishing some things, even if only your short pieces. Even if you don’t sell any of your own work this way, you can sign up for Smashword’s affiliates program and advertise the work of other authors for a percentage of the sales.

 

I only have two ideas for you today, but I hope they’ve helped. Both of these websites are free to use, though Smashwords takes a percentage of your ebook sales. If you want to publish your own material in print, Lulu is a good option. If you’d like to hear about opportunities periodically, subscribe to my blog. I update once or twice every week.

So much. I don’t know where to start.

So, I’ve been published a few more times.

By a few I mean I’ve had to start a detailed chart into what has been published, where, when, and by whom, but only after I realized I’m no longer capable of reliably sending out unpublished work to other publications without said chart.

I have memory issues and for a while had imposter syndrome because I didn’t even realize that I’d published so many pieces… until I wrote my first CV.

I’m not trying to brag, just stating a fact. The vast majority of the work is individual poems.

The poems you see on this blog are all first-draft, so they’re nothing like the ones I’ve sculpted over years. Turns out I have a signature style, too (though I’m sure it’s been done before): making my poems in the form of images. I make images out of the words. They’re usually also short and not rhymed.

Other than that I’ve published a few short non-fiction pieces and formal essays.

A large number of my poems can be found on an archive on the online literary journal Page and Spine. And both my poems and non-fiction have been published in a lot of recent editions of Breath and Shadow, an online literary magazine by and for people with disabilities.

For anyone looking for paid publication for poetry or creative non-fiction, check these two out. Neither pay a lot: an average of $20-$30 for Breath and Shadow and about $5 to $7 per poem in the case of Page & Spine, but both are always looking for new work. Just make sure, as always, to read their submission guidelines carefully.

If I need

A follow-back

smack

mention

moron

lipshits

boring down on me

bending the break-need

backne.

 

Have it out with one tree. Keep it

separate

sanctified

reason why in summer jet

the evening spent

in spiral

in fortune

faring another ferry.

 

Keep up the merry.

What they say to me

pray to me

on my grave it seems

they’ll still be asking me

to wear

a little lipstick,

please.

Naked

Sort of, in my own way. Figurative and literal, relative to longitude.

Nothing but rude.

I’ve decided

or did it decide me.

Have faint and foist

off with the head of the heist.

Get it twice,

on the way down dice

dismal

darling

all of it cramming and instagramming

its way to

stardom

forthright.

I know nothing

so open

as the hope

the internet first brought

with it

before the rest

of the world

made it rot.

Before the old world of the rich

got their hands in it. Understood

its use

if not

its meaning.

Keep fibrous in being,

this one commiserating with the last run

in the sun

shine

in the way blind

to bat

and ball the cop-

out culprit.

 

No way to know the pit of what

could have been.

Don’t get lost in it

you’ll never find something

to fit.