About Paul Wakefield
I don't just teach writing.I do.
I'm Paul Wakefield.
I'm a six-figure content writer, direct response copywriter, entrepreneur, business advisor, bestselling author and professional speaker.
I've spent decades building businesses.
Now I make a living with words.
And I'm teaching other people how to do the same.
2x Bestselling Author · 8 Business Books · Professional Speaker · Business Advisor
Your words are more valuable than you think.
I've spent years learning one simple lesson:
Words can create opportunities.
Words can build businesses.
Words can sell products.
Words can build trust.
Words can change minds.
Words can turn an idea into a business.
And words can become a very good living.
That's what Make Money Writing is about.
Not becoming Shakespeare.
Not writing perfect English.
Not waiting for someone to give you permission to call yourself a writer.
Learning how to use words to create value — and get paid for it.
Need a writer?
I'll write for you.
I work with businesses and entrepreneurs who need words that actually do something.
- Content
- LinkedIn posts
- Articles
- Thought leadership
- Sales copy
- Direct response copy
- Emails
- Books
- Business storytelling
- Website copy
- Founder content
- Brand stories
I'm not interested in writing words simply because a business needs "content". I want the words to have a job.
To attract.
To educate.
To persuade.
To build authority.
To create demand.
To generate sales.
Need money?
I'll teach you how to make money with words.
You don't need to become a journalist.
You don't need a publishing deal.
You don't need thousands of followers.
You don't even need to think of yourself as a “writer”.
You need to understand that businesses have problems that words can solve. And businesses pay people to solve problems.
Make Money Writing exists to teach you how to turn that skill into income. Whether you want:
- A side hustle
- Freelance income
- A writing business
- A personal brand
- A consulting business
- Book income
- Content income
- Copywriting income
I'll show you how I do it.
The writer's life
Writing gives me something money never could.
One of the things I love most about writing is that I can take my work with me.
I can sit on a boat travelling down the backwaters of Goa.
Surrounded by trees.
Water.
Silence.
Nature.
No office.
No meeting room.
No commute.
Just a laptop, a notebook and an idea.
I can write while the boat drifts through the backwaters.
I can stop working and watch the sunset.
I can watch the crew fish.
I can watch dinner being prepared.
And somewhere between the noise of the world disappearing and the sound of the water moving past the boat…
I can write.
That, to me, is freedom.
"Writing lets me make a living without being tied to one place."
The man cave
My favourite office has a door.
And when I close it, the world disappears.
At home, I have a room I call my man cave.
It's not particularly glamorous. But I love it.
- Coffee
- A notebook
- A laptop
- Books
- Ideas
- Old notes
- New ideas
- Half-written stories
Things I've written years ago. Things I haven't written yet. It's where I go when I want to disappear from the world.
I close the door.
Make the coffee.
Put the phone away.
Open the notebook.
And go deep.
That's one of the things I love about writing. For a few hours, you can disappear into an idea. You can build a world with words. You can explore something you didn't even know you were thinking about. You can create.
Two pens
I've had the same two pens since I was 19.
A ballpoint. And a fountain pen.
They're not particularly exciting. They're certainly not expensive pieces of technology. But they've been with me for decades.
Those two pens have helped me write thousands upon thousands of words.
For myself.
For businesses.
For clients.
For books.
For ideas.
For speeches.
For things that worked.
And for plenty of things that didn't.
They've been there through businesses. Through setbacks. Through success. Through starting again. Through writing books. Through building businesses. And through becoming a writer.
"Technology changes.
Good words don't."
I was diagnosed dyslexic at 19.
And I was told I wasn't very good with words.
I've struggled with reading and writing for most of my life.
At school, English wasn't the subject where I felt clever. I struggled. Reading was difficult. Writing was difficult. And somewhere along the way, I started believing that maybe words simply weren't my thing.
Then, at 19, I was diagnosed as dyslexic.
For a long time, I saw that diagnosis as something that explained what I couldn't do. Eventually I realised it could explain something else. The way I did think.
My brain didn't always work in straight lines. Ideas arrived differently.
I saw connections.
Stories.
Patterns.
Possibilities.
I didn't always think in perfect sentences. But I could think in ideas. And I could tell stories. That became a strength.
I didn't need to become someone else. I needed to learn how to use the way my brain worked. And that's what I did.
I turned the thing I thought was a weakness…into a career.
Today, I make a living writing.
I write for businesses.
I write books.
I write content.
I write sales copy.
I write speeches.
I teach people how to write.
I speak about writing.
And I get paid for something I once thought I wasn't very good at.
Written off
My English teacher wrote me off.
Imagine telling a teenager who struggles to read and write that words will never really be their thing.
That happened to me.
I wasn't the kid teachers expected to become a writer.
I struggled with English.
I struggled with reading.
I struggled with writing.
And I'm pretty sure nobody was looking at me thinking:
"That kid is going to make a living from words."
But here's the funny thing about being written off.
Sometimes it gives you something to prove.
Not to the teacher. To yourself.
Decades later…
I make a living writing.
I write books.
I write for businesses.
I write sales copy.
I write content.
I speak about it.
And now I'm teaching other people how to make money from words.
Sometimes the person who tells you what you can't become has absolutely no idea who you're going to become.
From the page to the stage
Words took me off the page.
Writing didn't just give me a career. It gave me a voice.
I've spoken in schools, colleges and universities. Business conferences. Events. And stages across the UK and Europe.
I've stood in front of rooms full of people and told my story. A kid who struggled with reading and writing. A dyslexic teenager. An entrepreneur. A business builder. A writer. An author. And now someone who teaches other people that their story, their knowledge and their words can have value.
- 01
Writing
Notebooks, sales letters, articles — words with a job to do.
- 02
Books
Eight business books. Two bestsellers.
- 03
Speaking
Schools, universities, conferences and stages across the UK and Europe.
- 04
Business
Advising founders on growth, positioning and scale.
I'm not just a writer.I'm a business person who writes.
I've spent decades building businesses.
- Sales
- Marketing
- Business development
- Strategy
- Growth
- Advisory
I've created companies. I've made mistakes. I've started again. I've helped other businesses grow. And I've written my way through much of it.
That matters. Because great writing isn't just about knowing how to put words together. It's understanding why the words matter. Who they're for. What problem they solve. What emotion they create. And what action you want someone to take.
Creator of
The Scale Readiness Ladder
A framework I created to help businesses understand what they need to fix before trying to scale.
I write books too.
Writing books taught me something important.
You don't need to know everything before you start writing. You need an idea worth exploring. Then you need the discipline to sit down and turn that idea into words.
And sometimes… a way of finally getting an idea out of your head and into the world.
A book can become:
- A business card.
- A credibility engine.
- A speaking platform.
- A lead generator.
- A product.
- A revenue stream.
- A legacy.
On AI
I thought AI might ruin my career.I was wrong.
When AI started becoming genuinely useful, I'll admit it: I was worried.
I'm a writer. If a machine can write… what happens to writers?
What I eventually discovered was that AI didn't make creativity less valuable. It made creativity more accessible.
- Explore ideas faster
- Generate possibilities
- Challenge an argument
- Find angles I hadn't considered
- Turn rough thoughts into structures
- Research, organise, experiment
- Beat the blank page
But the most important thing hasn't changed.
The machine doesn't live my life.
It hasn't travelled down the backwaters of Goa.
It hasn't built businesses.
It hasn't sat in my man cave at midnight drinking coffee.
It wasn't diagnosed dyslexic at 19.
It didn't get written off by an English teacher.
It hasn't written eight business books.
It doesn't have my experiences. My opinions. My failures. My stories. My voice.
That's the opportunity. AI can help writers create more.
But it doesn't replace the thing that makes writing interesting: the human being behind the words.
"AI didn't kill my writing career.
It gave me another tool to become a better writer."
I don't want to create more writers.I want to create more people who make money from writing.
There are millions of people who can write.
People who can explain things.
People who know things.
People who have stories.
People who have businesses.
People who have expertise.
People who have ideas.
But they don't always realise those words have commercial value. Make Money Writing exists to change that.
The goal isn't simply to teach people how to write. It's to teach them how to turn writing into an asset.
- A side hustle.
- A service.
- A business.
- A product.
- A personal brand.
- A career.
- An income.
Want Paul to write for you?
Content.
Copywriting.
Thought leadership.
Articles.
Books.
Business storytelling.
Sales copy.
Founder content.
Want to learn how to do it yourself?
Learn how to turn your words into income.
Learn the business of writing.
Learn how to find clients.
Learn how to create products.
Learn how to build a writing business.
Learn how to use AI properly.
Learn how to make money with words.
The world doesn't need more perfect writers.It needs more people with something to say.
If you've got knowledge…
A story…
An idea…
A business…
An opinion…
Or simply a desire to create something of your own…
You already have something valuable. You have words.
Now let's turn them into something.
Paul Wakefield
- 6-figure content writer
- Direct response copywriter
- 2x bestselling author
- Author of 8 business books
- Business advisor
- Professional speaker
- Creator of The Scale Readiness Ladder