Writing and Publishing

     There is a story, which may be urban legend; however, there is great value in the point which I will explain later.  Many years ago, in the 1800’s in England a famous motivational speaker was going to speak in a great hall.  A poor English woman worked peeling potatoes for a boarding house.  An esteemed speaker was going to speak in London and she decided to attend in a great hall.  The speaker spoke of finding opportunities and making the most of them. 

     After the lecture she approached him and said that was easy for him to say because of his own status and opportunities, but her situation was different.  He asked her what she did.  She explained where she worked and what she did.  He asked her what she sat on, “as stool,” he asked her what was under the stool, “bricks.”  He then asked her to learn all she could about bricks and write an article and send it to him.  She did, and he was able to get it published and paid her for it.  He then asked her what was under the bricks, she looked and responded, “ants.”  He then asked her to write about the ants.  She did a great deal of research and with his help, published a book on ants, which became well known and was considered a top book on the subject at the time.

Now, I do not know of a surety that this story is true, however, I do know of many people who came from nowhere, from great poverty, wrote and published and went on to make a great deal of money doing it.  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dickens, and J.K. Rowling are just a few examples.  If you click on Dickens' name, you will see a few more that may surprise you.

     It has never been easier to get something published.  Anyone can get published themselves, free of charge.  They can self-publish with Amazon https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US?ref_=kdpgp_p_us_psg_kw_ad79  of course, that doesn’t mean it will sell or ever be read, but there is a line from an old very B movie that I love, Take Down, about a high school wresting team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Down_(1979_film) “getting pinned is closer to victory than never getting on the mat at all.”

     I just came across another opportunity for getting writing published somewhere, it’s called Hubpages https://hubpages.com/ .  I have absolutely no idea how legitimate they are; however, there is another old saying, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.  I will submit something and see what happens.  Perhaps you may as well.  If you do, and it works out, or doesn’t, please let others know here.

If you are reading this, there are things you know and care about.  There are things you can research and submit for publishing.  Perhaps you can make some money doing it.  Perhaps I can too.  I'll let you know how it goes for me.

     I have not, but know some people make thousands of dollars blogging.  Blogging sites such as the one I use, are free to use and set up.  That may be an option.  Many years ago I had a site with courses on child development.  For a while I made about $500.00 a month from the site.  That lasted only a short while and it got to the point where the site cost me more money than I was making from it.  I will add some videos on making money from blogging.