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I Made $1000 a Month Writing Erotica: Here Are 20 Important Lessons Learned
You can make money writing online, and you don’t have to write smut
After 6 months of full-time writing, I had one major problem: I wasn’t making any money.
Armed with a Masters in Creative Writing, some savings, and a lot of seriously unfounded optimism, I’d quit my teaching job at a local college and told everyone that I was now, officially, a writer.
It felt so good to finally take the leap. But now, I was panicking.
I Googled, for the hundredth time: “How to make money as a writer?”, and, this time, my eyes fell on an article about publishing erotica short-stories on Amazon. The article’s author was making over $1000 a month.
My eyes lit up. That would almost pay my rent.
Could I? Should I?
It seemed seedy, and of course, it was beneath my yet-to-flower-but-surely-awesome talent.
But I needed money.
I told myself it was like a young actor doing nude scenes or a stripper paying their way through dance school. I had rent to pay, and well, it was writing after all.
Plus, I could write under a pen name. What did I have to lose?
