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How To Make Money Writing Blog Novels
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By Christopher Kyalo
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Blog novels are an extremely lucrative option, which everywriter should take a closer look at. I am not talking theoryhere, I've actually written two blog novels, and although onlyone of them is complete, both earn me an ongoing income. What'smore they will continue to earn me that income for many years tocome - that's the beauty of a blog novel.
Writing a novel is hard work, but there are several advantagesof writing it online and in the form of a blog. To start with itis much easier to write it in blog format because you can getongoing comments from your readers and even generate freeone-way links from them. I did both with my first blog novel andit worked out beyond my expectations. Not to mention this littleknown secret about the way blog novels tend to generate trafficall on their own and without any effort on your part, like youhaving to work keywords. More on that later.
This is how I started writing my first blog novel. I wrote thefirst few hundred words, trying to put in as much suspense aspossible and at the same time building up the characters in aninteresting way. I put all of it in one post. The next day I didyet another post. After a few days I felt a little discouragedbecause hardly anybody seemed to be reading my blog novel. So Istopped writing. But not before making one promise to anywould-be readers out there. I would continue writing the momentI received a comment. I would need one comment to make a post.
I waited a few days half expecting that it would not work. Butit did and all this can be viewed first hand in that initialblog novel I wrote. One person wrote in and so our conversationstarted. That conversation with that person and a couple ofother readers who joined in later, carried me to the end of myblog novel. I've started out writing many novels in my lifetimebut this was the first one that I ever finished.
I had also built a relationship with those readers who werevisiting my blog and commenting, virtually daily and so when Iasked for one way links to my blog novel, I got them.
The important thing here is that you must make your readers apart of your novel-writing process, that way they get involvedin the whole process so deeply that they will virtually doanything for you.
Traffic to your blog novel will tend to grow as you steadilycontinue to write it. And so will your income from programs likeAdsense where you earn money when those wonderful readers clickon your ads.
With a reasonable amount of regular traffic, the cash generatingoptions are many. You can directly sell targeted advertisementsof your very own or even text links in your blog. Not to mentionjoining a highly relevant affiliate program. That is, relevantto the sort of blog novel that you are writing.
There is one fear that many writers have, which I want to talkabout now. Some of you writers out there will be horrified atthe fact that I am suggesting that you allow your raw un-revisedwriting to be read. What if it is all horrible trash?
My advice here is that it does not matter. In other words it isnot the most important thing. The most important thing for awriter is for them to keep on writing. Blogs offer a goldenopportunity for this to happen. You can always edit and reviseyour bovel (blog novel) when it is done. That's the easy partand you will have already completed the most difficult part -writing something.
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