How I Earn Over $500 a Month Writing on Substack

A beginner’s guide

Alison Acheson
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readNov 30, 2021

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Photo by louis magnotti on Unsplash

I began a newsletter on Substack in April 2021, and then went “paid” with it June 1. My publication, the Unschool for Writers, has now averaged about $500/month income for me, and this is just the first — and growing — five months.

Let’s start Q&A, and please ask any other questions in the comments — I’ll be happy to answer…

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My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.