If You Want to Make Money by Writing, Study These Three Masters
Three great content creators you should copy
Charles Dickens
If you are addicted to the process of creating content, and would like to work from home, you might try the path taken by Mr. D. Here is an an excellent example of a content creator who had huge success even though he never outsourced. Chuck D. would spend all day writing pages and pages of content for which he did not even have a blog. Instead, he would sell the content to middlemen who published it in “periodicals,” which were the websites of his day.
The ironic part? Much of Uncle Charlie’s audience was illiterate. Often a villager who knew how to read would stand in the town square and read the content to a gathering of consumers who would stand (stand, for goodness sake!) and listen. Dickens himself — when he wasn’t incontinently pouring content onto his pages at home — would travel around and perform public readings of his content. To us now, this seems like an obvious waste of free content because there was no way to harvest user data from crowds of random spectators.
Chaz’s crucial innovation was his application of the series format. His fans could not consume all the content at once, as binging had not yet been invented. The consumers of the time did not…
