Make Money with your Blog Fiction

For those of us with delusions of someday making money off of our blog fiction writings, there's a limited number of options for us.

Selling ad space on your blog is probably the most obvious, and easiest option. Just like any other blog or website it's easy to add Ad Sense or some other ad service. If you have enough readers you can make a few bucks this way.

The other way would be if you use your super duper awesome writing to attract a publisher. With a little luck, you can convince a publisher to swoop in and save you from the penniless internet writing and get you into the "respectable" dead tree publishing business. It worked for Cheeseburger Brown after all.

Another way is to try and sell to your readers. You can try and sell dead-tree versions of your blog. Wilf almost did this. Something else a lot of bloggers do is sell T-Shirts and other paraphernalia to make money. It's something I've yet to see a Blog Fiction writer do, but it's out there as an option.

For the longest time, I figured those were the only three ways a writer could make money off of a blog fiction. Well, that was until I found The Curly Situation. This enterpising author does something that never really occurred to me to try. He just asks for paypal donations. He even throws in a vague threat about not continuing without some coin.

It's a blog novel (or "blovel" if must blestroy the blingo). It's also an experiment. I write, you read, and we all get a laugh along the way. The story centres on Curly Gibson, an Aussie cricketer whose talent for accidental sporting success is surpassed only by his talent for getting shot at. I'll post twice a week, as long as I get nice comments and a few bucks in the tip jar. Puh-leeese. - JD

Now that I think about it, it seems like an obvious thing to try. I'll be curious if Jason gets any "tips" this way. I Hope he does.