How to Make Money Writing Poetry

If you love to write poetry then maybe you can make money writing poetry. You need to have a passion for it and write a lot. Here is how to make money writing poetry.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. First you need a following. Start a website where you can write poetry and let people read some of it. Then have a mailing list where they can receive new poems as you do them. This is how you build a fan base.

2. Once you have enough people interested in your poetry it is time to make money writing poetry. Collect together your best poetry and put them into an ebook that you sell on your website. You can accept payment in several ways, the easiest is with paypal.

3. Communicate with your fan base. Read their emails so you know what they are enjoying and which poems they don't like. If you really want to make money writing poetry then you need to write things people actually want to read.

4. Keep on writing poetry. The more you write the better you will get at it. If your fan base gets big enough start a forum to let people talk to each other about your poetry. Interact with them there. Let some of the "insiders" read poems that you write and have not published yet to get some buzz going with the other forum members.

5. This is a way to make money writing poetry. The most important parts are to write as much as you can and to develop a fan base.

Resources

• The Poetry Home Repair Manual
• The Practice of Poetry

[writetolife]

on 10/27/2009 cool idea for making money writing poetry. By the sound of the article, you must have successfully done it yourself.

[Teachforever]

on 10/22/2009 Great idea.5*