Steemit - A Penny Per Word

A penny a word. That is roughly what Charles Dickens used to earn. Yes, Charles Dickens, cranking out artisan, hand-made sentences, letter by letter, word by word. He was literally mining money. Which is why he was so verbose.

If you're a good, entertaining, insightful, intelligent author (or you just find some shortcut to pandering to the masses), you stand to make significantly more. How does a dollar a word sound? Look around for some popular authors on Steemit. You'll find some of them are making significantly more than that, and getting paid in a currency that increases in value over time.

This applies more to bloggers than novelists. For now. But, as someone with some 600,000 published words on Amazon (my estimate), yeah, I'd like a piece of that. Steemit is a sort of put-your-money-where-your-mouth is site for writers. Put your stuff out there. If people like it, you win. No one is asking you to purchase a book on good faith, in the hopes you like it.

Heck, I see people generating income via good comments alone.

All of which makes for an interesting ecosystem of meritocracy. And that is something any competent writer should be enthused about. Better yet, if you've accumulated years of content, you can post your pieces to Steemit at a rate of one every five minutes. This is sort of like the Google Adsense Hustle, in which people churned out 1000s of webpages in order to gain Adsense revenue.

Except this time, well-written content is king.

I've already decided that I have absolutely nothing to lose in publishing my novels on Steemit, and plenty to gain. Even if that gain is merely an increased readership. Which is what I think most writers secretly want more than money in the first place.