My Writing Earnings for 2013

I am a bit disappointed, aw, who am I kidding, more than a bit disappointed in that I had a goal of tripling my writing income of 2012 in the year 2013, but I didn't even quite double it. In 2013 I earned $520 from writing and in 2013 I only earned $972. So although I earned more, it certainly isn't enough to get all excited about. I did find 2 new writing venues which helped a lot this year and they were WebAnswers and Bubblews. Unfortunately I didn't find them till the end of the summer so maybe things will be much better this coming year from those 2?  So far Bubblews is working out best for me. I am working my way up to earning $100 per month there but currently make between $50 and $75 a month just at that one website. My goal for writing earnings for the year 2014 is $2,400. That still will not support me, nor will it pay for my daughter's college tuition, but every little bit helps, and that will be a big increase for me. Instead of doubling or tripling what I earned this year, I just chose $2,400 because it will mean I am earning $200 a month. This year one of my goals is also to have at least one article published in a  magazine, and to start writing for the site Constant Content. Stay tuned and I will let you know how it goes!

My Earnings for December, 2013

Well, I have figured out my writing earnings for the month of December, 2013. I was so hoping to hit $100 but came up a few dollars short. My total for December came to $97.39 and included: $43.55 for Bubblews, $15.73 for HubPages, $38.11 for Google Adsense. I just figured out my totals for the year but will put that in another blog entry. I am disappointed to not have made the $100 this month. I was in a real rush during the last couple days and wrote a lot on Bubblews, but it wasn't enough. And as for the month of December as a whole, I suppose with all of the holiday preparations I was involved in during December, I should be pretty happy with what I did accomplish. I really need to step my monthly earnings up in 2014 though. Here's to a great year for all of us who write to earn money!

Bubblews Changes Its Redemption Amount

I have been a Bubblews member now since mid-August...4 months almost exactly to the day. I have enjoyed my time there, in spite of a lot of the negativity on the internet about Bubblews. Before I started, I read about a lot of writers that weren't getting paid there. I decided to take my chances and give it a try anyway. I have had a very good experience there, getting paid 4 out of the 5 times I redeemed, and the one I didn't get paid for was a glitch that I believe was outside of Bubblews control. But now, Bubblews has up the amount needed from $25 to $50. When I first heard about it, I was not happy. It seems to take me a long time to get to that $25 threshold, and now having to reach $50 before payout makes seems to have taken a bit of the wind out of my sails. I am still committed to being an active member on the site, but feel I will have to work harder to keep myself motivated enough to write on there enough to keep the money coming in. They say it will be a good thing for Bubblews members to have to hit $50 before redeeming because that gives the staff more time to check into things and connect with Bubblews members. I have a better understanding of the change now, and I hope it works out for the good for all concerned. Are any of you Bubblews members? What do you think of the change in the redemption amount?

My Earnings For November, 2013

It's been awhile since I have posted on this blog. Sorry, I will try to do better because I do enjoy it so. But I have been very busy selling items on Ebay and spending time writing on the Bubblews website. I was doing great on WebAnswers for awhile, but it went down and had no ads on it for about 1/2 the month of November, so I am sure I lost earnings because of that. I wanted to give my monthly update of earnings from writing online. I enjoy doing it because it keeps me motivated to keep doing better each month to try to beat the earnings from the month before. Here is how much I earned: Google Adsense, from a combination of 2 blogs, WebAnswers, and some residual income from HubPages:$68.93...Bubblews income: $30.23 ( I could have earned more but when I tried to redeem once for $27, I got a Gateway error message so apparently the site had gone down when I tried to redeem and I think that redemption is lost for good)...and $13.84 from HubPages, which also includes Ebay earnings from that site. That is a total of: $113.00 for November, 2013. As always, I hope to beat that amount this month. I really want to have a banner month writing because it is the last month of the year, and my last chance to boost the income I have made this year before I total it all up. My original goal was to triple what I earned last year from writing. Last year I earned $520. After looking at what I have earned so far, I won't be able to triple that, but am working on at least doubling it.

My Writing Earnings for the Past Four Months

The other day I was writing an article for Bubblews about how much money I earned during the month of October. I realized I hadn't updated things here in awhile so, I wanted to catch everyone up to date. I have the totals for my earnings over the past 4 months. I am earning more money from writing now on a monthly basis than I was over the summer when I was writing full time, even though I have been subbing almost daily. That is good news for how things will go next summer when I again can write full time. I think the reason I am doing so much better is due to all the experiments and research I did over the summer about the best sites to write for. I am sure there are others out there, but for now, I am very happy with the earnings I get from HubPages ( well, this could be better, but at least I am earning something there each month), this blog and my blog about Second Marriage Romance, Bubblews, and WebAnswers. Here are my earnings for the past 4 months: July: $80.60........August: $108.18........September:$114.19 plus $150 that I earned interviewing clients and writing up descriptions of their accomplishments for a program for a non-profit agency..........October: $89.83 (this was in 19 days as I was away and didn't have internet access for 12 days in October) That is a total of $542.80 for 4 months worth of work. Things are looking up in terms of my writing earnings. Will I make my $1,500 goal for 2013? No, but in four months I have already beaten last year's earnings of $521 so I am encouraged for the future. And I am having a ball being able to write every day!

I Found Work That I Love So I Never Have To Work A Day in My Life!

Well, that's what Confucius said anyway!His actual statement goes like this, 'Find work that you love and you won't have to work a day in your life." My husband and I recently were away on a trip and I had no access to the internet for twelve days. Let me tell you, those were twelve very long days. And I missed being able to write online. I still wrote, every day actually, like clockwork. I wrote about all we saw while we were away. I wrote about museums we visited and customs of the people around us. I wrote about the food we ate and experiences we had. But because I could not post it to the internet and share my writing, it felt like something was missing. All Summer long, I wrote and posted my writing on the internet on a daily basis. And I loved checking in weekly to see how much I earned from my hard work. The frustrating thing about not being able to access the internet was that I was not earning much since I couldn't publish anything. Well, actually because I am really crazy about tracking my earnings, I did find that over the course of 12 days, I had earned a whopping total of $16.51 in residual income. That figure is based on my posts on Bubblews, answers on WebAnswers, writing on HubPages, this blog and one other. I guess you might call that an okay return because while I was earning it, I wasn't actually doing any work as the earnings were based on work I had previously done. But when I can actively access the internet and publish my work daily, my earnings increase substantially. So, I am back, and ready to roll. I have already answered 4 questions on WebAnswers, posted 3 Bubbles, and am going to post a new hub that I wrote over vacation later today. I am having so much fun, that I know I have discovered work that I love, so if Confucius is right, from now on, I won't have to work a day in my life...once I am earning enough money from writing that I can give up my day job that is!

Catching Up

Wow, it has been quite some time since I posted here. And there is a reason for that. I calculated how much I earned during my summer of writing experiment and it was pretty dismal. I have been avoiding reporting my results because they are embarrassing. My whopping total of earnings I have made during the 10 weeks of my summer of writing experiment was: da da da da...( drum roll please) $208.81. That is quite a far cry from my original goal of $1,250.00 But I must say that while I didn't earn a lot of money, I did gain more knowledge will which help me to earn in the future. I discovered that having a blog helps keep me reaching toward my writing goals. That said, I am definitely going to keep up with this blog so that I can keep writing an reporting my results to all of you...and that in itself will keep me motivated so I don't embarrass myself anymore. I have also discovered two new websites (Bubblews and WebAnswers) both of which are bringing me more money on a daily basis than I was earning anywhere else on the web. So, moving forward into the Fall, I am confident that I will earn more in the next few months with my writing than I did over the 10 weeks of my experiment. Thanks for sticking with me through my 10 week experiment, and I hope you will continue to stick with me as I reach for a full time writing career.