Category: Blogging (Page 5 of 7)

Not much? Blogging hit its height about 10 years ago. But people can still make money on it through affiliate marketing, ads, etc. I do these things. And I have both a Patreon and an offer for freelance work.

However, blogs that make money tend to be ones that hit solid marketing topics or topics that are widely popular. Leftist blogging is a bit narrow, though. I cover topics with a good audience, but a relatively small one. If you’re looking to make big money, you should pick a different topic.

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OK, so I actually get this question more than I expected when I started the blog. The short answer: No.

The longer answer: Not yet, anyway. So far, I’ve written all content on the blog. I’m open to the possibility of a guest post. In fact, I’d love to see it. But I believe writers should be paid for their work. Even for more causal blog writing, I’d like to see writers getting paid 5-10 cents per word.

So, if I invited someone to do a 1000-1500 word guest post, I’d want to pay them $50-150 to do so. At the moment, I’m not really prepared to pay that kind of money for guest bloggers. I’ll probably say a bit more about the blog’s financials in a future FAQ. For now, let’s just say I’m not pulling in the kind of cash needed to pay people that much to write. Since I can’t pay, I’m not yet allowing guest posts.

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I’ve answered a few FAQs in my yearly blog anniversary posts. But I’d like to dedicate a series of posts to just an FAQ section. Welcome to that series! Here’s the first post.

People sometimes ask me why I decided to start a blog. As with many bloggers, I don’t have a single answer to this one. But I can think of a few reasons. Probably the biggest reason I made a blog is that I just wanted a creative outlet and place to organize some of my thoughts. I’ve worked on a lot of things related to politics, activism, and the social implications of these things. And I needed a way to put it all together. Why not a blog?

Another reason is that I wanted to see what it would be like to write for a living. Is it possible to be a working writer in 2020? If so, is it possible for someone who’s not a freelance journalist or staff writer for a magazine?

Finally, a third reason is that I kinda wanted to write another book. But I didn’t really know what my topic would be. Forcing myself to write each week pushed me to see what I really cared enough about to write a book on.

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