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Blog novels are an extremely lucrative option, which every
writer should take a closer look at. I am not talking theory
here, I've actually written two blog novels, and although only
one of them is complete, both earn me an ongoing income. What's
more they will continue to earn me that income for many years to
come - that's the beauty of a blog novel.
Writing a novel is hard work, but there are several advantages
of writing it online and in the form of a blog. To start with it
is much easier to write it in blog format because you can get
ongoing comments from your readers and even generate free
one-way links from them. I did both with my first blog novel and
it worked out beyond my expectations. Not to mention this little
known secret about the way blog novels tend to generate traffic
all on their own and without any effort on your part, like you
having to work keywords. More on that later.
This is how I started writing my first blog novel. I wrote the
first few hundred words, trying to put in as much suspense as
possible and at the same time building up the characters in an
interesting way. I put all of it in one post. The next day I did
yet another post. After a few days I felt a little discouraged
because hardly anybody seemed to be reading my blog novel. So I
stopped writing. But not before making one promise to any
would-be readers out there. I would continue writing the moment
I received a comment. I would need one comment to make a post.
I waited a few days half expecting that it would not work. But
it did and all this can be viewed first hand in that initial
blog novel I wrote. One person wrote in and so our conversation
started. That conversation with that person and a couple of
other readers who joined in later, carried me to the end of my
blog novel. I've started out writing many novels in my lifetime
but this was the first one that I ever finished.
I had also built a relationship with those readers who were
visiting my blog and commenting, virtually daily and so when I
asked for one way links to my blog novel, I got them.
The important thing here is that you must make your readers a
part of your novel-writing process, that way they get involved
in the whole process so deeply that they will virtually do
anything for you.
Traffic to your blog novel will tend to grow as you steadily
continue to write it. And so will your income from programs like
Adsense where you earn money when those wonderful readers click
on your ads.
With a reasonable amount of regular traffic, the cash generating
options are many. You can directly sell targeted advertisements
of your very own or even text links in your blog. Not to mention
joining a highly relevant affiliate program. That is, relevant
to the sort of blog novel that you are writing.
There is one fear that many writers have, which I want to talk
about now. Some of you writers out there will be horrified at
the fact that I am suggesting that you allow your raw un-revised
writing to be read. What if it is all horrible trash?
My advice here is that it does not matter. In other words it is
not the most important thing. The most important thing for a
writer is for them to keep on writing. Blogs offer a golden
opportunity for this to happen. You can always edit and revise
your bovel (blog novel) when it is done. That's the easy part
and you will have already completed the most difficult part -
writing something.
About the author:
Christopher Kyalo is a successful online entrepreneur and
writer. He has written three blog novels. Read the rest of this
article at his writer's
blog
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