Making Money Through Writing: Active Income vs. Passive Income

Mika

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As a writer, you can either make an active income or a passive income. Active income means you make money by working on the job, passive income means you earn without any ongoing work.

Freelance writing is active income. You will have to work on freelance writing jobs every day to make an income. You might be able to make $500-$1000 every month easily but you will have to work for 5-10 hours every day.

Forum posting is also an active income. Generally speaking, you can easily make $50 per month through forum posting if you post for 1-2 hours every day.

Making an active income as a writer means writing and publishing daily.

When you start making money from your blog that is passive income. If you have published ebook and if your ebook starts selling, you are making passive income. In the beginning, you have to work really hard on your blog or ebook, but in the long run, you start making money without any ongoing work.

There are also numerous methods to Get Paid as a Writer, you can try both active income platforms as well as passive income platforms. However, you need to understand building passive income takes time, whereas you can start making money immediately through active income platforms.
 
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