What’s My $50,000 Secret as a Full-time Freelance Writer?

Don’t waste time learning about writing.

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Let’s be frank, making money online is competitive because most of us struggle to overcome that first barrier — reaching a full-time income.

Even I spent my first 6 months grinding and sending pitches everywhere trying to get consistent work to pay my bills. It was hard, but I did it. Now, I expect to make $50,000+ in my first year as a full-time writer (more than I made at any of my old jobs).

I’m not trying to sell you the idea that you’ll make six figures a year and create another online course to sell. Tons of friends have asked me if that’s my goal and it’s not. My goal is to make a consistent amount with my work and share my advice with people who just want to find a job that makes them happy.

Not everyone wants to make $1,000,000. Shocking I know, but I don’t. If I did I don’t even know what I would do with it. Buy more boardgames? Donate to charity? Never do laundry or vacuum again? Actually, yeah, I’d probably do the last one.

Writing does come naturally to me, sure, but I also spent years learning how to write before I became a freelancer.

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