Kristie Leigh Karns : A Writer Who Isn't Afraid of Controversy

The next guest blogger at writer4web is Kristie Leigh Karns, who writes just about everything, from humor, to poetry, to novels, to Philosophy and theology. She also specializes in both digital photography, and digital artwork, plenty of which can be found among her items published on Triond.com. Her first novel, Sixteen Days, was published in July 2006. The sequel is already underway.

In the spring of 2006 I was in the process of finishing my first book, a Christian thriller titled, “Sixteen Days”, which has since been published and can now be seen and sold online. While I was in the process of finishing the book and searching the web for a publisher, I found a web-site called, “Blogstream”, which features different ads on each page. I started my own blog, and maintained it for several months, and by late summer 2006, I spotted one of those ads, for a site I had never seen before, called Triond.com. It was a site that paid the content provider a certain amount of money per click. The site was brand new when I came aboard, and I became the 288^th person to join. Since then, thousands of contributors have joined the site and Triond has grown immensely, to the point where its crew usually adds something new at least once per month.

One of the new additions that I really like about Triond is the “spam filter” which helps the author get rid of comments that are abusive and inappropriate in some way. We all get our share of inappropriate comments, especially if our subject matter is a little controversial, which mine sometimes is. But in order to publish online, you have to be prepared to accept the flak that some people dish out. With the spam filter you get to decide just how much flak you are willing to take.

I’m a born-again Christian, and sometimes my subject matter reflects that so there is always the chance of controversy. Much of the time however, I write humor pieces, which are so much fun to write, and people seem to like them a lot. It is true what they say, that writers write, and I have found that the more I write the better it gets with practice. In the past I have published some poetry, which I had hoped would help me get my foot in the publishing door, but it failed to do so. This is why the internet is so convenient a resource for us writers, because it gives us that outlet, enables us to get widely read and get paid.

From my experiences with Triond I can tell you what works best and what doesn’t. The humor category is big, but the controversial stuff gets the most attention, both good and bad. Everyone has an opinion and they all think they are right and you will hear about it. Contributors usually get paid more for articles, rather than photos or artwork, so if you want to make more money, writing articles is the way to do it. Photos and artwork are faster to do however, so if you want massive amounts of content, that’s the way to go.

Triond is located in Israel so if you don’t live there yet want to sign on as one of their contributors, be prepared to open a Pay Pal account if you don’t already have one, since foreign checks can be very expensive to cash. You get paid faster if you have a Pay Pal account anyway. All in all, however, publishing with Triond is fun, easy, and a very smart thing to do. I have enjoyed it and I have hundreds of pages of content to prove it.

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