How to sell short stories
How To Make Money Selling Short Stories
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hey what is up you guys it's dany here
how are we doing today i'm great and i
will be fine too
so in this video i'm gonna be talking
about like how to make money
selling short stories so one of you guys
asked me in the comment section
like asking that like i am a writer and
i want to make money selling short
stories so i thought i'll make a video
on that because
many of you guys might also love writing
and you like
writing short stories and stuff so i
thought it'll be helpful for
everyone who is interested in writing
story i'm going to be going over some of
the
legit platforms where you can write
short stories and make money
so stay tuned it's going to be
interesting guys so before we jump into
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so the first platform that we're looking
at it's called agni so this platform is
not an indian
platform but they named it agni uh which
means fire so that's really cool to see
an indian name on a foreign platform so
this platform
uh is for writing short stories writing
pros
uh you can write anything that you want
is you can write from different
countries
so if you have a really good skill of
writing you can write good
pros or you can write good poetry or
short stories or anything
you can do it here okay so these are
some of the rules like
you have to submit your manuscript from
between
september 1st to may 31st so that's when
they
accept all these submissions and all
that you can submit your work at during
only that time september 1st to may 31st
and these are some of the things that
you should know before submitting your
work
and you have to like go through all
these guys and then here
are some of the requests that they're
requesting you so please use page
numbers and if you're submitting pros
double space your documents so all sorts
of things
so instructions you have to follow these
and this is
the main thing this is how much they pay
you okay so look at this
they pay around ten dollars per printed
page
uh for accepted pros and 20 per page for
expected poetry and maximum of hundred
and fifty dollars so we also give a
year's
subscription to agni so all that they're
going to be giving you guys
and this is how much you're going to be
getting paid with this platform so in
order to submit your work click on this
and it will take you to this page
so you have to like fill in all the
details and it's available in all these
countries as you can see here
so look at all this guys so if you
belong to any of these countries you can
use this platform
so after that after putting in all those
information you have to like put in your
work so what genre you are in poetry
uh like fiction so you come under like
fiction because you're going to be
writing like short stories
so fiction uh essay like interview
reviews
you can get into like poetry or you can
get into like fiction so
the thing that you will fall under if
you're like writing short stories and
all that will be fiction
so select that and put in all the
information guys and upload your file
here and you just submit it so they'll
just get back to you you can even submit
it here or you can even like post it to
this address
because that will be more dear and they
can receive the file in person
so they there are more chances for them
to like read it okay so
submit your good work guys whichever
like you think
you're really good at so only submit
your best work to this particular
platform so this is the first place of
where you can write short stories and
make money
so it's called agni you can just search
it on google guys you'll find it
so now let's look at the second platform
so this is the second platform guys
it's called carb magazine so this is a
really really good platform so they've
been doing it for a long time so it's a
good magazine
so you can write for this so obviously
you have to pay a subscription fee
so i just want to put it out there guys
i'm not getting any commission out of it
so this is not any promotional video or
whatever
so this is just like i want to bring in
only legit platform
for you to work with okay so if you have
a really good talent of writing
you can just approach this if you think
that your work will get selected then
you can just go ahead and do it so
i'm not getting any commission out of
this so if you pay a subscription fee
i'm not going to be getting any
commission guys so i just want to put it
out there
just to make sure just to let you know
so you can just
use this if you want okay so with this
particular platform you can make about
100
for submitting your fiction so if you
submit your stories and stuff you get
about hundred dollars
so you can just click on this click here
to submit so for poetry you can get
about like fifty dollars
and for like non-fiction you get about
fifty dollars okay
so that's how much you will be able to
make with this platform
so if you get selected and if they
publish your work so that's when it
you can make money okay so if you want
to submit your work guys if you want to
just click on this one and it'll take
you to this page
you want to go through the guidelines so
genre you can't get into like thriller
horror or romance so literally fiction
only like novel experts only if it
stands alone as a story so uh these are
some of the guidelines go through this
so now this is the second platform it's
called half magazine so just type it on
google guys you'll find it
okay so this is the second platform now
let's look at the third way of how you
can make money
writing short stories so the third
platform is called
amazon kindle publishing so you might
have heard of this i would have made an
in-depth video about this earlier
so here you can like self-publish your
own book guys you don't have to pay
anything to get started with
you just got to like upload your
manuscript to this platform
and that's it stayed away within like 24
to 48 hours it will be in
all the like kindle store worldwide okay
so whoever like
subscribe to kindle they will uh have
access to this
straight away within like one or two
days okay so that's how cool it is
and once you get sales guys you can earn
up to 70
royalty on sales from customers in us
canada uk
germany india and all these countries so
you
have the rights to the book you can like
change it whenever you want let's say
that you have like certain changes
you can change it to whenever you want
so you can like sell it as an ebook like
a digital file
which people can like download it and
they can just read it
so it can be like an ebook format or
like in a digital format or it can be
like a paperback like a physical book
itself so they will ship it for you so
as you can see like paperbacks for free
with amazon kindle publishing so that's
really cool
if you think that you are a good writer
you can write good stuff
stories poetry anything that you can
write well
you can just publish with publish it
with amazon kindle publishing so you
don't need any platform so if you're
thinking like you want to get started
for free
you don't want to be investing any money
you can get started with amazon kindle
publishing so they only again you take
their fee
when you get a sale okay so that's how
it works so you
just have to like create an amazon
account and you can just sign up to
amazon publishing and you can
start using it so this is the third
platform now let's look at the fourth
way of how you can make money writing
short stories
so the fourth way to make money writing
short stories
is through social media guys social
media is
really really effective and this is one
of the best ways like among
all the three that i mentioned now this
is one of the best ways to get
your work out there to the people okay
so now everything is
social media okay so like as you guys
know like many entrepreneurs many
business people get into social media
because you have a lot of audience out
here who will love your work
okay so if you have a good skill of
writing so look at this particular
instagram page uh it's called
surprisingly short stories
and they'll just write all these good
short stories like
small little ones and they just put it
out there here
and look at the number of followers guys
63.5
000 followers and that shows like people
love all these kind of stuff so if you
have like good content
out there which you want to like share
it with people you can just
put it out there on instagram or put it
out there on facebook as you can see
here
now you might be wondering so how i can
make money with it so what you can do is
you can like
teach people how to write short stories
you can make a mini course out of it
and you can just share that knowledge
with people how you write short stories
and you can charge them for it so it can
be a huge amount of money it can be like
a few dollars or something you can
charge them and you can make money with
it
or maybe you what you can do is you can
even do affiliate marketing promote
story books
and you can make money with it you can
just sign up to amazon fba
program or any other affiliate program
and you can promote ebooks
you can promote storybooks you can sell
your own stuff
or you can do affiliate marketing and
you can make money so if you want to
know like how to make money with
affiliate marketing the right way
and you want to learn that personally
from me then check out the first link
below
in the description guys because i
basically train people on how to make
money with
affiliate marketing so if you want to
learn it from me check out the first
link below
in the description so these are the four
ways of how you can make money
writing short stories so i hope you
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