Writing is a great therapy, with many people finding solace in writing their own story out, for their further thought, or just to get the words out of their head, and written down. I have found this myself, particularly with my first poetry collection, “damaged children, Precious Gems”, based around sex abuse, particularly, but not only child sexual abuse. And then the memoir I wrote about my new life with Multiple Sclerosis, “Mick Jane and Me, Living Well with MS”.
These certainly helped me when I was having some bad/sad times, but that was then, and now I’m in a better place in my head, and I’m looking at ways to make myself some money with my writing, if and when I can. I’ve read the hype, seen the stories, and detected that that is probably not my way, I’m a far more humble kind of person, and while I can talk up my own abilities, I and a realist, and know the quiet back road is more my way, rather than the busy highway path.
Well done to those who are earning gazillion dollars for every word, with your writing, good on you, but I more looking to earning a good deal less than that! I can write, poetry and prose, my command of the English language is good. So when a writing friend mentioned a site she is now using for her own writing, with a view to spreading her words, and making a little bit of money, perhaps, I listened.
I am currently earning some Educational Lending Rights with one of my books, that come in once a year. And I sell a book every now and then too, which is always nice. I love signing the books I sell to people writing a personal note inside the front cover. That is an on again and off again way to get money though, although I have made enough with my books, that the costs of printing copies are all covered, so every sale is pure profit …
But writing a book is a big thing, and takes a lot of time, I’m interested in ways that I can do once, and go on gathering rewards into the future. The idea of ‘passive income’ without selling my soul is definitely what I’d like to do. So I did the obvious thing, and signed up to this site my friend is now using. It was a relatively simple process, once I got my head around it all, and I know have two pieces on this site.
The site’s name is Medium, and there is a huge range of well written articles there, I’m enjoying looking around, and reading a few pieces over the past couple of days. And of course, I couldn’t help myself, I’ve posted two of my own pieces on Medium. Writers are asked to post original unpublished material, so I can’t track back and regurgitate previously published things, but that’s fine, writing new work is good for me!
The two works I’ve had published are Wondering What To Write and Friends, Some Thoughts … If you’re interested in what I’ve written, why not click and take a look? Now though, I have another writing related thing to do, editing and resubmitting an article, so seeya, folks, I’ve got some editing to do!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 