Best Side Hustles for Writers: Make it, Sell it
Are you like other aspiring authors who may be using their creativity in other ways, such as creating side hustles? OR Could you turn your creativity into side hustles to make extra income? You might enjoy photography, drawing, or painting. You might enjoy crafting braided fabric baskets, dog costumes, or candles. If you’re not already selling your creative pieces online, could you start it as a side hustle?
Art As Side Hustles
Consider creating a side hustle by selling your photos to Adobe Stock or Shutterstock. In Top 11 Places to Sell Photos Online and Make Money, Alexandra Bateman shares these and places to sell photos. She also discusses what type of photos sell best.
The Photographer’s Market covers a variety of places where you can sell your photos. It includes contact information for advertising firms, magazines, greeting card companies, stock agencies, book publishers, and photo contests.
Create a side hustle using a personal website where you can sell your photos, drawings, or paintings. In How to Sell Your Art Online, Cory Huff offers advice on how to skip the gallery gatekeepers and go directly to buyers. Huff explains how to use your unique story to help sell your art online. By creating a website where you tell your story, you could create a successful side hustle.
Make It, Sell It Side Hustles
Benefits of hobbies: pleasure, relaxation, and potential for extra income.
You enjoy making something. It’s fun and relaxing (for the most part). It gives you great pleasure. It’s a creative outlet for you. Could it also become a side hustle? It can be when others want what you make and are willing to pay you for it. Carolyn discovered she had a talent for unique ceramic designs. As she began making more items, she also discovered her best designs had no practical purpose. They weren’t bowls, plates, or mugs. She created a website where she began to sell them for what they were, pieces of art.
Recently Cheryl began creating fabric baskets. She started selling them at local “Farmer’s Markets” in her area. With her eye for detail and her perfection in product finishing, she discovered she had a market for her baskets. So she expanded by opening an online shop on Etsy.
As with other challenges as an aspiring author, selling art or crafts also brings challenges. You don’t need an MBA to start your own side hustle. Your local library is likely to have numerous books to help learn how you set up websites or how to start a small business. Some libraries also offer free online courses in business and a variety of other areas that could help you create a side hustle. And of course, YouTube is full of videos on starting a small business or simple side hustles.
Set aside a little time to weigh the pros and cons of creating side hustles to help you earn extra income as you build your author career.
Don’t wait. Start today!
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