Prior to blogging, I had a day job for a while and lived pretty frugally. I told myself I was investing the money to donate eventually, and did eventually donate some, but kept the bulk of it. So when I first started blogging I already had enough to live on for a while. Then I got the EV grant, and a bit of additional private funding. So long story short, it’s not stressful, but it is something I think about. I’m not 100% sure what the long term strategy will be, but based on the feedback I’ve gotten so far, I think it’s likely I’ll be able to continue getting grants/donations.
Thanks!
Prior to blogging, I had a day job for a while and lived pretty frugally. I told myself I was investing the money to donate eventually, and did eventually donate some, but kept the bulk of it. So when I first started blogging I already had enough to live on for a while. Then I got the EV grant, and a bit of additional private funding. So long story short, it’s not stressful, but it is something I think about. I’m not 100% sure what the long term strategy will be, but based on the feedback I’ve gotten so far, I think it’s likely I’ll be able to continue getting grants/donations.
If you keep writing on a topic, maybe one day you can publish a collection of your blog posts as a book?
I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but haven’t yet amassed enough material on a topic to consider it a very coherent work. But someday...