Writers Are Lying To You About Their Earnings

These are five ways they do it.

Benya Clark
4 min readJul 19, 2022

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Lately, I’ve felt like I’m drowning in a flood of articles about how much money writers make. You know the type: “How I make $500 an hour blogging,” “How I made $100,000 from my first novel,” and “How I quadrupled my writing income in one month.”

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Benya Clark

I’m a lawyer turned writer from North Carolina. I write about sobriety, mental health, and more. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter at exploringsobriety.com.