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How to Make Money Writing: Episode 2
Writing – As A Beautiful and Peaceful Career
Hi, hello, welcome my dear friends. Welcome back to J. Selva Antony Santosh’s second blog post. We have discussed on “How to Start an Online Business Correctly” in my previous blogpost.
After reading that, you might have wondered if online business is possible, why can’t I make Writing as my full time career? To answer your query, I daft this blog post.
You might have wondered to focus on using AI tools such as OpenAI’s Chatgpt and Google ‘s Gemini to make money online with writing.
My dear friends, to be Frank, you need not required to focus on AI tools as they are foes to professional writers.
Instead, you can focus more on Reading Paperback Books. I repeat, focus on Reading Paperback Books . Because, reading more paperback books provides you a power to think creatively, write fantastic without the writer’s block. Besides, reading more paperback books with optimal reading speed, with optimal eye-book co-ordination, your inner peace level increases, your self-confidence level increases. And guess what? You would feel , you are interacting with 1000s of true friends when you read a paperback book.
A Paperback Book is far better than 1000 Offline Friends, 1 Million Online Friends, 1 Billion Offline Followers, and 10 Billion Online Followers
Writer’s Block occurs because of lack of reading habit for writers.
In fact, writing with pen and paper gives a more sophisticated, beautiful career which provides an ample health benefits to our mind.
- By writing with pen and paper, you can get natural creativity
- You would get freedom of expression
- You can get rid of Algorithm based Writing
- More importantly, you would definitely feel a peace of mind when you are writing with pen and paper.
Alright. We have seen why we need to pen story first with pen and paper.
Let’s explore how you can earn money from your writings now.
E-Book Writing As A Full-Time Career
Once you finish your writings with pen and paper, then open your favourite word processor such as MS-Word, Google Docs and type each and every word you have written in paper.
Try to compile the manuscript with atleast 100 pages of length.
After finishing the manuscript with good formatting, you can focus on marketing your written material.
Create a buzz on the theme of your book in Social media. Post engaging Reels, shorts videos, lengthy podcasts, and interact with your potential buyers live online and if possible arrange an offline meet-up with them. This is called Pre-Marketing.
Then, create an eye-catching E-book cover using Canva or Adobe Photoshop. After that, create a reel or short video about “Benefits of Reading Your Book”.
All set. You are ready to go, now.
You can create a podcast, blog post on “Benefits of Reading Your Book”
It’s time to jump over e-book publishing platforms.
There are numerous platforms available to Publish Your ebook.
- Publish on “Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing”
- Publish Using “Draft2Digital”
These two platforms are majorly important ones in the market right now.
You might wonder now on “How to Publish on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing)”. First of all, go to Self-Publishing | Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Login with your Existing Amazon Account (The Account, you used to create while shopping on Amazon) and then you can witness some menus such as Bookshelf, Reports, and so on.
- Bookshelf: Your Books which are self-published using Amazon KDP
- Reports: You shall get your book’s sales report here.
You can write an ebook with minimum of 30 pages to publish on Amazon KDP. The accepted formats are docx, pdf epub.
My suggestion is , write an ebook in Google Docs and download it as docx file and use it while publishing on Amazon KDP.
The Second one important factor is , utilising the power of keywords while publishing on KDP.
The Third important factor is to select the correct category while publishing on KDP.
The Fourth important factor is, since you are a newbie author who has no huge followers, I advise you to publish your ebook anywhere between $0.99 to $1.29 .
This will not only allow you to keep 70% royalty, you would get more and more readers.
The other interesting feature in KDP is, you are paid based on KENP Reading ( Kindle Edition Normalised Pages) apart from your ebook sales.
KENP is nothing but the royalty for you from the readers who are under kindle unlimited plan. It is evaluated with the reader’s interest and in-depth reading of your books. You are paid on reading by Page wise instead of a whole book.
It’s like Google Adsense program. Since, the KENP Reading royalty are collected from Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscribers, you are highly encouraged to enroll on Amazon KDP Select.
Promote KDP E-Book:
Amazon has some amazing in-built features to promote your ebook in KDP.
- Write A+ Content
- Utilitize KDP Countdown offer
- Run Amazon Ads
A+ Content can upgrade your presentation to the masses and potential readers.
I am by the way, J. Selva Antony Santosh, a fiction and non-fiction author , poet, screenplay writer, lyricist, copywriter, digital Marketing Expert, Avid Reader, listener and learner . I’m from Tamil Nadu, India.
KDP countdown offer can run upto 5 days with an option to provide your book for free for 5 days.
Note: You can utilise KDP Countdown offer once in 90 days. So, utilise it properly.
In order to Run Amazon Sponsored Ads, you need International Visa Debit card.
It is mandatory to have international debit/ credit card to run Amazon ads.
We will see about Amazon ads in my next blog posts. Keep your eye on this blog site.
Potential Earnings from Amazon KDP
I have seen many indie authors earn more than $1,00,000 yearly and some exceptional authors earn a sustainable $1 million USD as royalty.
Just make it simple. Write what your audience needs whether it is fiction, non-fiction or poetry, always write for your audience aka fans. Then, market your book as much as possible with Omni-Channel Marketing Strategies, Neuro Marketing Strategies, and so on.
Draft2Digital: An Overview
There’s no doubt Amazon is the monopoly in the ebook publishing world. But, if you want to reach broader audience beyond Amazon KDP, Draft2Digital would be your nice friend in need.
Draft2Digital is an aggregator who distributes your ebook to all the leading e-book publishing platforms including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Overdrive, Scribd and so on.
Note: If you want to publish a book using Draft2Digital, don’t publish it individually using your Amazon KDP account.
Publishing using Draft2Digital allows you to distribute your ebook in Amazon KDP and other leading platforms across the globe.
We will see about how to promote your ebooks distributed via Draft2Digital in my upcoming blogpost.
Note: You can publish ebook in all the major languages( in Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital) including Tamizh(Tamil), English,Hindi, Japanese, and so on.
Bonus Tip:
So, if you are here, congratulations! You are stubborn to follow your writing career. So, I provide you a bonus tip.
Access the Bookbub platform . It plays a connecting point to Authors and readers. You can use it for free to promote your ebook.
If you are willing to generate a regular flow of income using your ebook, try to utilise bookbub to run ads.
For readers, it offers ebooks with discounted price.
Conclusion
So, that’s it, guys. I hope you might have gotten an idea and hope to live your life by writing ebooks. Now, let me know how much of you have faced criticism of being a writer in the video, audio dominating era.
Don’t forget. Writing is a lengthy process. But, writers often don’t get recognition and appreciation, even credits for their writing.
So, be alert! I highly advise you to copyright your e-book. You can get copywright lawyers in your country. It is essential and writer’s rights to protect one’s intellectual property rights.
Then, focus on providing 1% effort to writing and 99% effort to Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.
I have seen a many authors become bestsellers only because of their steady and regular marketing efforts and their unique, distinguished marketing strategies in marketing their ebooks.
If you copyright your ebook, and your ebook is a massive hit, you could get film adaptation rights , course adaptation rights , OTT script adaptation rights and much more. Sky is the limit in the writing world for monetising.
And, please don’t stick only with e-book writing. Try to upgrade yourself to web novelist, comics writer, graphic novelist, audiobook narrator and writer. The advent of Chat Stories and interactive apps which allow users to play the game with their own way of finishing the already written stories is simply incredible.
And last but not least, get ready to upgrade yourself to write and publish on Metaverse as well as on NFT Platforms ( Non-Fungible Token platforms) such as Opensea, https://www.creatokia.com/en/s/what-is-creatokia#:~:text=Creatokia%20is%20a%20platform%20that,share%20of%20the%20sales%20revenue.
Additionally, I advise you to develop graphic designing skills, video editing skills, video content creation skills, audio content creation skills, audio editing skills, podcast host skills to stay on the track I’m the Self-Publishing Race.
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