8 Writing Side Hustles You NEED To Try in 2023

Alex Milner

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These are 8 writing side hustles you need to try as we’re going into 2023

Author

Although it takes longer a long amount of time, as a way to understand and learn additional writing techniques and strategies, you could write a book.

However, if you’re going to write a book, you need to ensure that its on a subject that you’re interested in. This is probably one of the most important pieces of advice on any piece of writing, but especially a book because you’ll be focused on this for longer and you need to ensure that you’re interested.

One of the positive elements is that once you’ve written your book and gotten the supporting assets, there are more tools than ever to ensure it can be successful. Being one of the most popular, 

Amazon Publishing

, this will help you get started and publish your book!

Ghost Writer

As an alternative to being an author, for ranging lengths of content, if you don’t want to do it for yourself, do it for someone else.

Through the possibility of earning decent money from being a ghost writer, you are able to get guaranteed payment to write someone else’s content — whilst also pretending to be them.

Being a popular writing method for those who have less time, why not get involved and write as someone else. If you think of the top books from the top people, there is a high chance that it is ghost written — of course, unless they’re an actual author.

Editor

If you have the skills of being a writer, but don’t want to spend the time writing long pieces of content, this is the role for you. You can use your eye for grammatical mistakes or errors in content and become an editor.

Ranging from basic grammatical and small details all the way through to deeper structure of content and the flow of the piece of the writing, this is what you could be editing and producing.

Becoming an editor requires the attention which you need to process the writing from the perspective of both, the writer and the reader.

Social Media Writer

If you’re willing to understand and adapt to social media from writing, you are able to do successfully. However, there are many different ways to write. For each channel, there is a slightly different tone and structure.

Once you understand this information, not only are you able to become a social media writer, but it gives you additional skills to work directly in social media — this is based on you continuously understand the new strategies and methods.

Write on Medium

As we come to the next side hustle in this list, this might be one that you’re already familar with since you’re already on the website. However, if you’re not, welcome to Medium.

Similar to a newsletter, you also have full creative control, however to make this into a sidehustle and start earning money on the side, you need to build up your content to earn you 100 followers.

There is one way to do that. That is to write and publish high-quality content that you audience wants to read. If you’re able to do that, you should also become a 

Medium member

 where you’ll be able to read all the content on this website ad-free. This is your place for inspiration.

Help Or Start a Business

Whether you want to start a business or help executives within a business, your skills in copywriting can be utilized in a multitude of ways.

From a social media post to a pitch and deck for new business, these are just the starting point of the ideas for being able to be useful within a business.

If you start your own business, and you have good copywriting skills and have other skills to help you achieve or you partner with someone, the return on this can literally be endless.

However, if you choose to help within a business and your methods within copywriting in relation to other tasks can earn you huge returns if the business in question also sees big returns. This can be through new business or other achieved metrics, it's important to determine this.

Proofreader

Similar to becoming an editor, if you’re a skilled writer, becoming a proofreader can also become a lucrative side hustle for you to be able to get involved with.

If you’re able to read from the perspective of the reader whilst also understanding your abilities to write, becoming a proofreader can be a good option.

Within the skillset and profession of proofreading, as there are so many subjects of interest and skills you can utilize, you are more than likely being able to find something which is of your interest. So, why not become a proofreader and start correcting people’s content?

Start a Newsletter

Being another side hustle which you’re able to get involved with, as you have full create control, you are able to start and write for a newsletter.

As this is your newsletter and you fully own it, if you start to gain subscribers, your newsletter can become popular, and this becomes your way to generate revenue.

One of the popular newsletter sites you are able to use to start your side hustle is 

Substack

. This is a good option because there are different revenue generating sources, this starts with membership tiers for your subscribers to pay for access.

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