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Want to make more money from your writing? Create a plan, and follow it. You’ll achieve more than you ever thought you could.

Here’s a popular complaint I hear from commenters on my writing blogs and read in my email: “People won’t pay for good writing!”

If you agree with this myth, I’m sorry, but you’re targeting the wrong group of buyers. If you want to be paid $2 per word rather than $2 per article, you have to target the buyers who are looking for $2-per-word articles.

This is only common sense.

In general: $2 per word is paid by mass market publications, offline and online, rather than tiny publications. (Copywriting is different. You can easily make anywhere from $2 to $5 and more per word for copywriting, no matter how tiny your client.)

So if you want to make more money, plan for it by targeting those who can afford to pay the rates you want to be paid.

Very few freelance writers PLAN. You can immediately put yourself into the top one per cent of writers when you plan.

Here’s how to create a plan.

1. Set a Goal, With a Deadline

Goal setting is fun when you look on every goal you set as an experiment. If it’s an experiment, you can tinker with it until you get the results you want. Never look on goal-setting as a win/ lose proposition. Look on goal-setting as a way to move forward in your writing career by gathering information on what works, and what doesn’t.

Your goal might be: “To make $2 per word from my writing 12 months from today.”

2. Create a Step by Step Plan to Achieve Your Goal

Next, create a step by step process to achieve your goal.

For example:

* Find ten publications which pay $2 per word

* Read the publications and make notes on what they’ve published in the past three months

* Read their writer’s guidelines if available. If you can’t meet the guidelines (don’t have the clips), create a plan to gather clips

And so on.

The steps you take to achieve your goal will change as you take them. No step is ever set in stone. You’ll discover short cuts as you work. Here’s what is important: writing down the steps, fully realizing that they will change. So, please write down a provisional plan.

3. Create Tasks out of Your First Step, and Schedule Them

Next simply take the first step, and create some tasks. For “Find ten publications which pay $2 per word” your tasks may be:

* Go to the library and read magazines you could submit to

* Research publications online

And so on.

Writing everything down, from your goals to the tasks in your schedule, is the key to writing success.

Ready to plan? Create a goal today to make more money from your freelance writing. Prepare to be shocked — you can achieve just about any goal you set, if you plan.

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Do you consider yourself a writer?

If you answered YES, start thinking about your Web writing a little differently. Yes, writers write, but to make the most income from your words, start thinking of yourself as a PRODUCER.

When you consider yourself “just a writer” (and when others look at you in this way), you’ll never make the income you could be making as a producer.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, there’s an enormous hunger for words online, but you’ll make the most money from your writing if you produce products.

For example, this article offers Podcast: Interview With Million Dollar Stock Market Blogger Timothy Sykes - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak:

“This is a great case study example of Conversion Blogging (blog + email list business model), where Tim is able to leverage his passion and built-up years of experience and translate that into a huge income stream just using some fairly straight forward online communication tools.”

Timothy Sykes uses his knowledge, writes about it, and makes a brilliant income. Sykes is a producer, rather than a writer.

If you can grasp this single concept of turning words into money by producing products, you can put it to work for you, and there will be no limit to your income.

I created Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) to help you to do this. Over the 52 weeks, you’ll become more than “just a writer”.

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There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

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How many freelance writing sources of income do you currently have? Relying on a single source can be a disaster, especially in the current economic climate. You should spread the risk; discover how to do that in this article.

I’m a Gemini, so I’ve always had several sources of income from my earliest days as a writer. I aimed for range of clients because I once bragged about upcoming projects to a mentor who laughed, and said: “Can you spell ‘unsecured creditor’?”

This was a warning that relying on a single publishing house, magazine, or other buyer of your writing is courting disaster. Developing multiple clients who buy from you regularly is common sense because it spreads the risk.

You can’t protect yourself entirely; clients’ businesses will fail, and then you’ll understand what “unsecured creditor” really means.

As soon as possible, in addition to writing for pay, you should also develop passive income streams. Create your own ebooks and other products which will sell for you year after year.

Here’s how to develop additional sources of income.

1. Diversify

The more areas you write in, the more you’re protected. If you’re currently writing articles for example, develop an ebook writing practice too, or write an ebook to sell as your own product.

2. Repurpose Writing You’ve Already Done

Every project you write takes time to research. Although you won’t be able to repurpose some projects (copywriting projects for example), you can certainly make the most of articles you write.

Aim to sell single rights, such as First North American Serial Rights (FNASR) for example, to a magazine article. This means you have rest of world rights still for sale, as well as the electronic rights.

Beyond splitting your rights, you can also repurpose print articles for the Web, and can use research to write several articles (one for magazines, others for the Web.)

Additionally, consider editing articles to which you retain rights for ebooks and reports.

3. Market Every Day

Few freelance writers market as much as they should. Aim for at least ten to 20 clients who buy from you regularly, and many more who buy from you occasionally.

You get these clients by marketing, so just do it. Yes, it takes time. But knowing you’ve got many sources of income gives you peace of mind, and this it worth aiming for.

4. Develop a New Source of Income Every Month

Ideally, aim to develop a new source of income each month. At the end of a year, you’ll have 12 additional sources of income. Not only will you avoid disaster, you’ll have a constantly increasing freelance writing income.

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What do you do when you’re laid off? You blog.

Movable Type (I use their TypePad application for my writing blog) is offering free pro accounts to laid off journalists.

For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts - NYTimes.com reports:

“Brooke-Sidney Gavins, a broadcast journalism student at the University of Southern California, is hoping to be chosen to help her nascent writing career. ‘I understand that there may not be a ‘guaranteed’ job with a major media organization after I graduate,’ Ms. Gavins said. ‘A lot of new journalists are going to have to build their careers more guerrilla-style by selling their stories and promoting their work all the time.’”

Of course, you don’t need to wait until you’re laid off, and you shouldn’t. These days a blog is an essential tool for any writer.

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Our theme for Tuesday’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is “make more money from your writing”.

Here’s an excerpt from the editorial:

Our theme this week is “make more money from your writing”. The simplest way of course is to increase your rates. I know that the HOW of this concerns many writers, so our article “Extra Money from Your Writing: Increase Your Rates” shows you how to do this efficiently.

Tip – diversify: it’s essential

Here’s a tip that’s always worked for me to increase the money I make: diversification.

Several different income streams are always better than one.

For example, one writing student I’m currently coaching Tim (not is real name) has been making a good income blogging. However, he knows he could be making much more money, so he wants to create some residual income streams. With products bringing in money, he isn’t simply trading hours for money.

Together we’ve mapped out a program for him which includes several Web sites, a couple of ebooks and a membership forum. Once he’s created these products, they’ll all add to his income over 2009. Not only that, each product will also continually increase the income it provides. Tim knows that in three years or less, these products alone will bring him a six figure income.

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Discover the world of Web writing - make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth’s comprehensive training: “Sell Your Writing Online Now”.

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