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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 2902250" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>A couple of ideas:</p><p><strong>1.) It was fun while it lasted!</strong> The industry is in a bit of a dryspill, don't be afraid to go on a hyatus instead of burning out and going under due to lack of sales.</p><p><strong>2.) Get a job that makes a lot of money per hour.</strong> Guarentee your income with a job you find remotely interesting and pays well. I'm pretty certain that you can generate an income in three days a week to live comfortably, this removes a lot of worry and stress. I have done this for a year or two in the past and was very relaxing (four day weekend), i earned enough to live comfortably and got a lot of work done on private projects and endevours (some programming, some web design, some game design, even started my own webshop). I'm currently back to a four day work week, but i'm considering going back to three days later this year...</p><p><strong>3.) Try a different approach to generate income with your writing.</strong> You might try publishing your work on a website and generate an income with ads (such as google adsense). A volume such as a 101 feats could easily cover 10-14 webpages (that's 10-14 impressions per viewer reading your work), and by making it free you will increase the userbase enormously. Chances are that each user will view certain pages more than once (as reference), imagine the ENworld userbase reading your work, that's a lot of impressions. A membership fee (for example $20 user/year) would remove the ads for that user, a premium account (for example $30 user/year) would also give users access to all the material in pdf (plus updates) for a year. You could make deals with certain print publisher to include an ad in your pdf for a fee.</p><p></p><p>Just spewing some ideas...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 2902250, member: 725"] A couple of ideas: [B]1.) It was fun while it lasted![/B] The industry is in a bit of a dryspill, don't be afraid to go on a hyatus instead of burning out and going under due to lack of sales. [B]2.) Get a job that makes a lot of money per hour.[/B] Guarentee your income with a job you find remotely interesting and pays well. I'm pretty certain that you can generate an income in three days a week to live comfortably, this removes a lot of worry and stress. I have done this for a year or two in the past and was very relaxing (four day weekend), i earned enough to live comfortably and got a lot of work done on private projects and endevours (some programming, some web design, some game design, even started my own webshop). I'm currently back to a four day work week, but i'm considering going back to three days later this year... [B]3.) Try a different approach to generate income with your writing.[/B] You might try publishing your work on a website and generate an income with ads (such as google adsense). A volume such as a 101 feats could easily cover 10-14 webpages (that's 10-14 impressions per viewer reading your work), and by making it free you will increase the userbase enormously. Chances are that each user will view certain pages more than once (as reference), imagine the ENworld userbase reading your work, that's a lot of impressions. A membership fee (for example $20 user/year) would remove the ads for that user, a premium account (for example $30 user/year) would also give users access to all the material in pdf (plus updates) for a year. You could make deals with certain print publisher to include an ad in your pdf for a fee. Just spewing some ideas... [/QUOTE]
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