Writing as a Job

[TheDerpieGod]

Will any of you write professionally in the future? I treat writing as a hobby that can be used for money in the future while I'm working towards my degrees. I think of this site as a place to practice my writing and to get in the hobby of updating and being more consistent in stuff I want to do, all while hoping the habit spreads to other parts of my life. Though I have no idea if people even really like my writing that much lol.

 

[AliceShiki]

Ideally, yeah, sure. My dream is to make a living out of writing.

If it flops, I'll go for something else, but that's my current goal.

... Now if only I could write regularly after meeting my daily quota at my current job... >.>

 

[Ai-chan]

Yes. Already discussed with a site about writing for money. Unfortunately, Ai-chan needs to finish a new book first before Ai-chan can make use of that negotiation.

And no, it's not webnovel, cloud something or whatever else would contact you out of the blue offering a contract. It's a proper company that Ai-chan had to send the early manuscript to and ask if they'd be interested.

 

[TheDerpieGod]

Yes. Already discussed with a site about writing for money. Unfortunately, Ai-chan needs to finish a new book first before Ai-chan can make use of that negotiation.

And no, it's not webnovel, cloud something or whatever else would contact you out of the blue offering a contract. It's a proper company that Ai-chan had to send the early manuscript to and ask if they'd be interested.

Wait, Webnovel contacts you just like that? I thought when you reach a certain type of popularity, they would contact you.

 

[LostLibrarian]

No. Not unless I stumble over a lucky success story.
Going for a writing career is too depressing if I want to keep my living standards...

Best case scenario, it might become a nice side-job that brings in some money from time to time.
But that's it...

 

[PurpleCatGirl]

we're trying to make a go of it already, through patreon. we're not that interested in traditional publishing, prefer the freedom of what we're doing right now.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Wait, Webnovel contacts you just like that? I thought when you reach a certain type of popularity, they would contact you.

Webnovel itself doesn't usually contact you until you've reached a certain popularity point as far as I know but there are plenty of publishers whether they be real or fake that will harass you a ton. At least, they harassed me a lot. It's one of the reasons I left webnovel. I was incredibly tired of all the scam publishers bothering me.

 

[Katsuya]

Will any of you write professionally in the future? I treat writing as a hobby that can be used for money in the future while I'm working towards my degrees. I think of this site as a place to practice my writing and to get in the hobby of updating and being more consistent in stuff I want to do, all while hoping the habit spreads to other parts of my life. Though I have no idea if people even really like my writing that much lol.

For sure. I would like to be pro author and publish at least one book in my life time. Gotta start small, am I right?

Though, writing online has it's own perks.

My writing isn't the best yet so yeah, I'll have work hard. Same goes with my stories.

 

[Gryphon]

That's basically my plan. The whole reason I'm doing webnovel stuff is so I can get my name out there. I also plan on doing some short story stuff in the future. On this site, I'm writing a dramatic bait and switch story, whereas when I release my first novel, it will be portal fantasy(isekai for the weebs out there) with a lot better prose and obvious signs of better planning.

 

[Linko]

Well, I hope I could but as of right now such thoughts are nothing but dreams that in the future may show themselves unreachable.

 

[PancakesWitch]

I already earn over 7k usd a month from webnovel and I am not even writing proffesionally lol

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Will any of you write professionally in the future? I treat writing as a hobby that can be used for money in the future while I'm working towards my degrees. I think of this site as a place to practice my writing and to get in the hobby of updating and being more consistent in stuff I want to do, all while hoping the habit spreads to other parts of my life. Though I have no idea if people even really like my writing that much lol.

Yeah and after that get elected…

 

[NotaNuffian]

I have no plans to use writing as my passive income. Then again, I have no plans for anything as my passive income. I am in my thirties and this is really poor financial planning.

 

[TheDerpieGod]

I have no plans to use writing as my passive income. Then again, I have no plans for anything as my passive income. I am in my thirties and this is really poor financial planning.

Jesus christ.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Jesus christ.

Lord save this lost lamb.

 

[TheDerpieGod]

Lord save this lost lamb.

So we can make lamb shanks in the afternoon.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Does data entry count? Technically I'm writing. ;-;

 

[Grandloaf]

I'm just a writer for fun.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Writing as a job would be cool. Too bad I‘m already on that spreadsheet grindset

 

[sage61]

I honestly prefer reading more than writing, so I won't ever be writing professionally. The only reason I've been writing novels in the first place is because I ran out of books to read and also after I read some bad webnovels where I hated how some plot stories goes/ended and so I decided to write out what I preferred to read about instead. I have a really bad habit of procrastination, so most of my novels never gets completed. I used to post my stories at Textnovel.com but then stopped after the site went dead. After that, I've never posted any of my stories online every again.