HOW MUCH I MAKE GHOSTWRITING NOVELS ON UPWORK

And is it worth it?

James D. Michael
8 min readJan 14, 2022

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I first came across Upwork nearly eight years ago.

Back then, the very concept of making money as a freelancer writer was as alien to me as pigs suddenly wearing human clothes and sitting down to dinner (at the time, I hadn’t read Animal Farm either). But when I signed up to the website, when I started getting actual paid work…

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James D. Michael

I took Malcolm Gladwell’s advice, wrote for 10,000 hours and ended up on Medium. I write about health and lifestyle, with a few other fun stories thrown in.