Getting Paid for Writing

Lifestyle Business vs. Scalable Startup?

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Do you want VC funding? Why? Perhaps a lifestyle business is more your style: "Lifestyle business are truly something remarkable. They...

• Article How to Make Money as a Freelance Developer: Business Tips from an Expert
• Article KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES DRIP, A NEW SERVICE THAT LETS FANS SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR FAVORITE CREATORS
• Article Five Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup · fast.ai
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Geting Paid for your Writing

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a collection of articles and resources to help aspiring writers

• Article I write Lenny's Newsletter, the #1 paid business newsletter on Substack, generating over $500k ARR. AMA.
• Article Writing in Someone Else’s World | The Atlantic
• Article Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
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The Business of Creativity and the Gig-Economy

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A collection of resources about the Business of Creativity and the Gig Economy offers insights into the intersection of creative work and...

• Article How This 25-Year-Old Earns A Passive Revenue of $400K A Year While Traveling The World | Forbes
• Article Writing in Someone Else’s World | The Atlantic
• Article My 150 Writing Mentors and Me | The Atlantic
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Paid Newsletter subscriptions - Substack, Forbes, others

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Paid Newsletter subscriptions - Substack, Forbes, others

• Article Sovereign Writers and Substack – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Website Gumroad - Creators deserve toget paid for their work.Gumroad makes it easy.
• Article Twitter’s ‘Super Follow’ creator subscription takes shots at Substack and Patreon – TechCrunch
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Costs of indie hacking - solo developer job

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A collection of articles about the costs of quitting your job and launching a solo-developer job

• Article My Second Year as a Solo Developer · mtlynch.io
• Article My First Year as a Solo Developer - mtlynch.io
• Article Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
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Passion Economy vs the Gig Economy - and the business of creativity

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a collection of articles and videos about the difference between the "Passion Economy" and the Gig Economy - and the business of creativity

• Article The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
• Article 1,000 True Fans? Try 100
• Podcast The Passion Economy: Redefining Work
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Substack - Newsletter subscriptions

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Substack - Newsletter subscriptions

• Article Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to Spotify | TechCrunch
• Article Substack cofounders discuss $1 million local news plan - Vox
• Article Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom - Axios
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Geting Paid for your Writing - Publishers, Platforms and Marketplaces

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a collection of articles and resources to help aspiring writers

• Article Visualizing the Most Popular Paid Subscription News Websites
• Website Substack - newsletter subscriptions
• Article Medium - Create a blog and start writing for free 
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Writing - tools, platforms, resources

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Writing - tools, platforms, resources

• Website Typeshare | The All-In-One Platform for Digital Writers
• Website Grammarly: Free Writing Assistant
• Website Markdoc is a powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework - from Stripe

Creator Passion Economy - selected articles videos from Li Jin

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Creator Passion Economy - selected articles videos from Li Jin

• Article What's next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that's what. at andrewchen
• Article The Power User Curve - Andreessen Horowitz
• Article The Case for Universal Creative Income — By Li Jin and Lila Shroff - Mirror

AI and Writing, Creativity

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AI - Writing and Creativity

• Website CopyAI: Create Marketing Copy In Seconds
• Website TextFX - AI tool from google, for writers
• Article Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable – TechCrunch
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Writing Jobs and AI - challenges, issues

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Writing Jobs and AI - challenges, issues

• Article Hollywood on Strike – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Lifestyle Business vs. Scalable Startups -- examples

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Do you want VC funding? Why? Perhaps a lifestyle business is more your style: "Lifestyle business are truly something remarkable. They...

• Article I Sell Onions on the Internet - Deep South Ventures
• Podcast Productize Your Service, Streamline Your Process - Brett Williams DesignJoy - Indie Hackers
• Article This Very Long, Super Nerdy NBA Podcast is Making Money
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Writing and Creativity

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a collection of articles and resources to help aspiring writers

• Article Advice For Aspiring Writers
• Article What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
• Article Do We Write Differently on a Screen? | The New Yorker
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Poetry Writing

3 resources

a collection of articles about Poetry Writing

• Article Read Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem, 'The Hill We Climb'
• Article How Poetry Came to Matter Again - The Atlantic
• Article The Most Misread Poem in America

Geting Paid for your Writing - challenges making money

9 resources

a collection of articles and resources to help aspiring writers

• Article Writing books is not really a good idea - The Novelleist
• Article Publishing: How to write a bestseller.
• Article Hollywood on Strike – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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Book launch - how to market and promote your writing - tips, suggestions, challenges

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Book launch - how to market and promote your writing - tips, suggestions, challenges

• Podcast #648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits - The Tim Ferriss Show

Amanda Gorman - Poetry Writing

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Amanda Gorman - Poetry Writing

• Article How Amanda Gorman Became So Much More Than a Literary Star | Vogue
• Article Read Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem, 'The Hill We Climb'

Creator Passion Economy - tools and resources for marketing, payments, getting paid

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Creator Passion Economy - tools and resources for marketing, payments, getting paid

• Website Gumroad - Creators deserve toget paid for their work.Gumroad makes it easy.
• Website Lemon Squeezy - Payments, tax & subscriptions for software companies
• Website Circle: The modern community platform for creators
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Creator Passion Economy - overview

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Creator Passion Economy - overview

• Article Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy - Li's Newsletter
• Article Mapping the Creator Economy
• Article The new rules of the “creator economy” | The Economist

Examples of writers making money on Substack - Newsletter subscriptions

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Substack - Newsletter subscriptions

• Article What I learned from a year on Substack » Nieman Journalism Lab
• Podcast So You Want to Launch a Newsletter: Tips From Writers - Andreessen Horowitz
• Article I write Lenny's Newsletter, the #1 paid business newsletter on Substack, generating over $500k ARR. AMA.
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Poets - poetry

5 resources

a collection of articles about Poetry Writing

• Article How Poetry Came to Matter Again - The Atlantic
• Article The Most Misread Poem in America
• Article How Amanda Gorman Became So Much More Than a Literary Star | Vogue
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Examples of creators making money - selling courses, videos, newsletters, more

5 resources

Examples of creators making money - selling courses, videos, newsletters, more

• Article Creator Spotlight: Daniel Vassallo's Success on Gumroad
• Article Microsoft Excel influencer quit day job making 6 figures teaching spreadsheet hacks, tips, and tricks
• Article What I learned from a year on Substack » Nieman Journalism Lab
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