6 Simple Steps to Double Your Writing Income

1. Find your market

If you’re trying to double your income overnight, you can’t try and do it with just any topic. You need a specialized niche — ideally something you already have some expertise in.

The idea is that you will become an expert in writing about one particular topic and by doing so, attract many potential clients looking for someone like you.

For example, if you are interested in poetry but there are many writers on Etsy offering exactly what you want, look into how much they make and use that as a guide for how much money could be made from writing about poetry on other platforms too.

Finding your market is one of those things that’s incredibly easy to say but incredibly hard to do. To find your market, you need to focus. The best way I know how to find your market and double my writing income overnight, take a look at my post on finding markets. Here’s how: click here.

There are a number of ways you can double your income with one simple tip, but in order to do so, you have to know what that is. In my case, it was finding a niche that wasn’t saturated and writing for only those people.

It’s not enough anymore to be an expert at marketing; today, you need expertise in specific niches. These will become your primary income generators and will lead directly into Step 2:

Write for only these people: I knew that my experience as a developer translated well into writing about IT because I was already an authority on it — and if I could use something I already knew so well as my base, doubling my income would be easy!

2. Connect with influencers in your industry

Influencers are usually early adopters. They’re cool, clever, and on top of their game — the kind of people that can influence people like you. An expert in your niche will be able to tell you about new trends in your industry and how they might affect how you do business or improve your content for your clients.

If you can connect with an influencer, ask them if they’d be willing to review a product or service on social media. It will help boost their credibility as an expert in their field while providing added value to their followers. In return, they may even send some traffic back to your site!

This is another area where I’ve taken a step back from things like Twitter and Facebook. Don’t get me wrong — social media has its place, but if you’re looking for solid, long-term relationships with people who can help you grow your business…don’t spend much time on social media.

Instead, make an effort to connect with your audience in person: at conferences and seminars, or via one-on-one Skype or Google Hangouts.

Make an influencer list, starting with your friends and family. Reach out to a couple of people a day and ask if they’d be willing to connect on Linkedin.

3. Choose one skill and improve it

If you’re serious about being a better writer, you need to dedicate yourself to one skill that will separate you from your peers. For example, I’ve focused on becoming an absolute expert at SEO-friendly writing.

As a result, my writing has dramatically improved and brought in much more money than it used to. Before making any other steps towards improving your income as a writer, choose one thing that is important (such as SEO or copywriting) and focus all of your efforts there.

Once you see results from doing so, you can consider branching out and diversifying your skill set later on. Today, you should focus your energy on improving one of your skills.

Don’t worry about doing everything well at once. This can be very overwhelming, even for writers who are highly skilled in more than one area. Choose one specific skill that you’d like to master, then spend time every day working on it until you feel really good about it.

Identify one skill you want to improve. Don’t try and learn ten at once — pick just one thing, decide what ‘stage’ of learning you are in (is it ‘learning it’, ‘practicing it’, or ‘mastering it’) and set a realistic goal for improvement.

For example: if you feel your writing style is too wordy, choose to focus on getting your thoughts down succinctly over a week.

4. What is success?

As a writer, success is subjective. It’s not just about earning a good living — it’s about finding enjoyment in your work, too. And that can mean different things to different people. So while you might aim for $100K per year, remember that no two writers are alike:

Some would be content with a fraction of that and others would find even more success than they could ever imagine. The bottom line? Success depends on you! In fact, it’s your journey — so what does success look like for you? Is it earning a certain amount of money each month or year? Or is it something else entirely?

You need to know what success looks like for you. Will it be having a full-time writing career or being a stay-at-home mom? Make that your goal, then work backward from there.

Ask yourself: How many articles do I need to write each month in order to achieve my goals? What’s my weekly workload (including weekends)? What about monthly and yearly? These are benchmarks you can use when deciding whether or not you’re making enough money.

Ask yourself what success means to you. Is it earning $1,000 per month or $100,000? Is it working from home or having a writing career that allows you to be out in public and helping people? What is your definition of success?

5. Schedule time for writing every day

you are an entrepreneur and your job is writing. Make sure you schedule time every day for your daily tasks as well as plan ahead for future assignments. When you write every day, you can’t help but improve and practice what you have learned in your creative writing class.

It is easy to fall into a slump when you don’t write consistently, so set aside a few hours each week or month to lock yourself away and force yourself not to leave until a certain word count has been completed or a goal has been met! It will take some time, but it will be worth it in the end!

This is not optional. You must do it every day, and you must schedule it like any other appointment on your calendar. If you fail to schedule writing time in your calendar each week, you’ll never do it.

So schedule it! And then stick to that schedule. Choose a time when you know nothing else is going on so that you can focus completely on your writing for those thirty minutes or so. And if something does come up during that time?

If you don’t write every day, then it doesn’t count. It’s as simple as that. Decide how much time you want to spend writing daily (even if it’s just an hour), and schedule that time in your calendar like a meeting. Getting into a routine of writing daily will help you stay motivated and achieve your goals.

6. Repeat

This is definitely a step you want to repeat. I know it’s tempting to just say, You know what? I’m going to be done with all of these steps right now!, but you won’t benefit from that. By focusing on one skill at a time, you’ll get better and better over time.

You’ll always feel behind, but that’s okay; just keep working on your skills. Don’t forget step one! That leads into step two, which can lead into step three, and so on until you’ve doubled your income overnight!

The One Thing No One Ever Talks About When They Talk About Becoming a Writer, Is That Writers Write. It’s no surprise that it takes so long for writers to make any money.

Like most writers I know, I’ve struggled with bouts of writer’s block, uncertainty about whether or not I have what it takes, and other self-limiting beliefs that have prevented me from fully committing myself to my writing career.

It’s important to keep in mind that it can take time for your income to grow. If you’re making an extra $10,000 per year now and still feel like you have financial holes in your life, don’t be discouraged — it may take a few years of doubling your income before you feel like you can truly stop worrying about money.