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When You Write, Think Long-Term
And make your writing work for you
Most of us know what we want to write about this week or month. But what about next year? Or five years from now?
Thinking long-term is important when you write. You won’t be able to predict exactly what will happen in the future, of course, but making plans can help you stay on track.
To maximize your writing effort, write down a business plan. What projects are you working on? Do you want to write a book? Get into a certain publication? Write that down. Then write down how you plan to get there.
Writing down your goals makes it much more likely that you’ll achieve them.
As you progress, you’ll see that writing, both your ability and profit, can have a snowball effect. Early on, when you don’t have a lot of readers, it’s hard to find your niche and make money.
But the more you write, the better you can get, and more readers you can attract. Done correctly, many pieces of writing can have a long tail of profitability.
For example, I still make money from blog posts I wrote a year ago. I even make money from books I wrote under a pen name seven years ago.
Granted, it’s not a lot of money. I stopped before I gained momentum. But I don’t plan on stopping…
