Writing

How To Make Money Writing Fiction On The Internet

Bringing together art and business

Matthew Donnellon
4 min readDec 18, 2022

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Photo by Joshua Rondeau on Unsplash

If you tell someone that you’re a writer then you must be prepared to get certain looks.

I’m sure you’ve experienced it.

It’s that, “You poor soul” or “Have fun in the poor house.”

If you’re in school, everybody seems to love asking “how do you plan on making money?” and “you’ll have to get a real job one day.”

I can’t tell you how sweet the satisfaction is when you get to say to people later on that you are in fact making money.

Then, jealousy comes when people find out about your flexible schedule and how you get to work from home.

Plus, sometimes it’s nice to post a picture on Instagram of you sitting in your hammock in the backyard overlooking the forest while you caption it, “My new office.”

It’s even better when you can make some money writing fiction.

Ghostwriting can be lucrative and so can freelance writing, and I’m glad they were able to help me get started with a writing career, but I got into writing to write stories, not TPS reports. (To be honest I have no idea what that are, I just remember hearing about it in Office Space.)

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Matthew Donnellon
Matthew Donnellon

Written by Matthew Donnellon

Matthew Donnellon is a writer, artist, and sit down comedian. He is the author of The Curious Case of Emma Lee and Other Stories.

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