Make Money
The £0 → £10,000 writing experiment
I'm starting a writing business from scratch, in public.
Paul Wakefield · 14 July 2026 · 4 min read

The rules
- Start from £0.
- Publish the numbers, good or bad.
- No paid ads.
- Everything earned must come from writing.
The milestones
- £0 — the starting line.
- £100 — proof somebody will pay.
- £500 — a repeatable offer.
- £1,000 — the first real month.
- £2,500 — retainers.
- £5,000 — a business, not a side project.
- £10,000 — the experiment ends.
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