Writing For Pleasure vs Writing for Profit

Can you have one without the other?

All writers write to get something out of it whether it is just the enjoyment of writing or using it as an expressional outlet for the things inside us.

Some writers write with the sole object of making money and making a living in what some consider to be a passive way. (It’s not) On the other hand, sometimes you have writers who write to share their ideas with the world and those of which who write to see the pennies flowing into their bank accounts.

Yes, pennies.

You can dash any hope of a single best-selling book making you millions of dollars overnight.

You can write about it in a book, but seeing those words in fiction will be the closest you come to that reality.

As much as I wish I could say as a full-time author and content creator I’m doing pretty well for myself, there are some nights still yet when I’m not quite sure if the bills will all be paid in time, if there will be enough food to last till the end of the week, and if my monthly date night with my partner will have to be moved to the next month (again) since it’s just not in the budget.

When I check my stats it’s sometimes hard not to be dissuaded from writing when I see that the return isn’t worth the time I’ve put…