A lot of people dream of being able to quit the day job, get out a laptop (or typewriter if you’re old-school) and write a best-selling novel.
To be honest that’s a really tough ask.
According to the 2017 Digital Book World and Writer’s Digest Author Survey, on average writers make around £600 a year.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no money to be made at all in writing fiction. We’ve already told you how you can make money publishing to kindle. but there’s also money to be made in submitting short stories to magazines.
In fact there are competitions that pay out £1,000 to the best short story!
To give you some help, here is our guide to making money writing short stories.
