TheEldritchGod
A Cloud Of Pure Spite And Eyes
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It's simple.
Go on fiverr, advertise that you'll ghost write, have someone request something insane, write it, sell it, Repeat. Somewhere along the line you might luck into someone who actually publishes things and you can ghost write things for them for a while. Eventually get sick of all of it as you find you increasingly write stuff that the guy buying your work mangles beyond repair and you are glad you sold it so your name isn't attached to that steaming pile of nonsense. Learn to never ever look at what you write gets turned into. EVER.
If you have dreams of actually making any money at this, I think Amazon lets you self-publish or something. However, are you going to hire an architect who never built a house? Most people take years to train as something to get a job in a chosen field. So here's what you do, go on youtube, search for videos on how to write, watch them. Then write. at least 1k a day. Every day. I don't care what, just write. Make an actual book. Put it up here, or wherever and just write it off. A 'real' book is about 60k to 100k. So in 4 months, you should have a book done.
Now write three more.
This first year is 'going to school'. If you can pump out four books, no matter how crappy, in a year, you have what it takes to do this for real. And you need that attitude because this is a goddamn numbers game. Most editors will take your work and rape it. I mean that. It will be raped. When I think about the first book I handed over to an editor, It was a horror when they finished. The critics MOCKED IT. The funny thing is, the few parts they liked were the parts the editor didn't rape.
I am not doing hyperbole here. The editor will pay you for your book and then have his way with it. Other books in the morning will be gathered around the corpse of your book while The Content Police draw a chalk outline around its violated body.
Writing for money SUCKS. Even if you get good at it, you will become rather bitter as you will discover that you are just a cog in a machine that is pumping out content like nobody's business. If you want to actual do this for money, you need to treat it like a job. Get at your computer and write 1000 words a day. 100 days later, take the result and edit it for the next 20 and then post it somewhere. Decide how bad you want that cash and how much your name/reputation is worth.
I gave up years ago. I did books for publish for an editor for a while, then I did ghost writing, then all the jobs I could find that paid anything were smut/romance/porn. Then I stopped. Finally got the bug to write again and now I'm doing it for the fun of it. After I get these first two out of the way, I'll gage how good I did then see about if I want to publish the next 8 in the series for money.
That's the other reason for pumping our four books. If any of them take off, people will want a sequel. The one that's popular, you make the next book based on that one. I'm sorry there is no easy way to do this. I'm basically starting over from scratch here, myself. I suspect I'll have to grind just as much as if I was starting from day one. That's just how it works. Nobody cares.
But there are oodles of places that need content. Yes, there are many content produces, but how many series on this site alone never got into the double digits are far as chapters are concerned? The editors want content that fits their guidelines and is CONSTANT. A steady flow. Someone who can churn out mediocre crap that the editor can customize to his current needs and meet a deadline will get the job over someone who is brilliant but erratic. Every editor is just a wanna be author who pays you to write for them so they don't have to grind. Learn to grind and eventually you'll find someone who goes, "Hey. Yeah. I'll give you 6 cents a word." You go 'Huzzah!' sell it, get your 600 dollars and then you can turn into the godfather.
Go on fiverr, advertise that you'll ghost write, have someone request something insane, write it, sell it, Repeat. Somewhere along the line you might luck into someone who actually publishes things and you can ghost write things for them for a while. Eventually get sick of all of it as you find you increasingly write stuff that the guy buying your work mangles beyond repair and you are glad you sold it so your name isn't attached to that steaming pile of nonsense. Learn to never ever look at what you write gets turned into. EVER.
If you have dreams of actually making any money at this, I think Amazon lets you self-publish or something. However, are you going to hire an architect who never built a house? Most people take years to train as something to get a job in a chosen field. So here's what you do, go on youtube, search for videos on how to write, watch them. Then write. at least 1k a day. Every day. I don't care what, just write. Make an actual book. Put it up here, or wherever and just write it off. A 'real' book is about 60k to 100k. So in 4 months, you should have a book done.
Now write three more.
This first year is 'going to school'. If you can pump out four books, no matter how crappy, in a year, you have what it takes to do this for real. And you need that attitude because this is a goddamn numbers game. Most editors will take your work and rape it. I mean that. It will be raped. When I think about the first book I handed over to an editor, It was a horror when they finished. The critics MOCKED IT. The funny thing is, the few parts they liked were the parts the editor didn't rape.
I am not doing hyperbole here. The editor will pay you for your book and then have his way with it. Other books in the morning will be gathered around the corpse of your book while The Content Police draw a chalk outline around its violated body.
Writing for money SUCKS. Even if you get good at it, you will become rather bitter as you will discover that you are just a cog in a machine that is pumping out content like nobody's business. If you want to actual do this for money, you need to treat it like a job. Get at your computer and write 1000 words a day. 100 days later, take the result and edit it for the next 20 and then post it somewhere. Decide how bad you want that cash and how much your name/reputation is worth.
I gave up years ago. I did books for publish for an editor for a while, then I did ghost writing, then all the jobs I could find that paid anything were smut/romance/porn. Then I stopped. Finally got the bug to write again and now I'm doing it for the fun of it. After I get these first two out of the way, I'll gage how good I did then see about if I want to publish the next 8 in the series for money.
That's the other reason for pumping our four books. If any of them take off, people will want a sequel. The one that's popular, you make the next book based on that one. I'm sorry there is no easy way to do this. I'm basically starting over from scratch here, myself. I suspect I'll have to grind just as much as if I was starting from day one. That's just how it works. Nobody cares.
But there are oodles of places that need content. Yes, there are many content produces, but how many series on this site alone never got into the double digits are far as chapters are concerned? The editors want content that fits their guidelines and is CONSTANT. A steady flow. Someone who can churn out mediocre crap that the editor can customize to his current needs and meet a deadline will get the job over someone who is brilliant but erratic. Every editor is just a wanna be author who pays you to write for them so they don't have to grind. Learn to grind and eventually you'll find someone who goes, "Hey. Yeah. I'll give you 6 cents a word." You go 'Huzzah!' sell it, get your 600 dollars and then you can turn into the godfather.