This is the best article I’ve read in years, so let me make this clear: I am not a rich man. I know money can be a powerful incentive, but I simply don’t think it’s ever going to replace a good, solid, and reliable job. It’s easy to do that because we are so used to it. It’s just not where I want to spend my time.
The reality is that for most people, money is just not high on their list of priorities. Most people simply don’t know how to live on less, or at least they don’t know how to live without it. It is much easier to get by with less than to go back to your old life and try to make up the difference.
I know that a lot of people want to work on their own projects, and that is fine. But I do think it can be a pretty dangerous thing to work in a field where the world is constantly changing. There is a lot of money to be made from building your own game engine. There is a lot of money to be made from writing your own books.
All too often I’ve seen people get into the habit of working in a field for which there is little demand. The idea of an idle mind, the pursuit of money, the pursuit of fame is really hard to shake. But the idea that a person can get rich in a field where there is no demand for it makes it sound like a fantasy. I don’t think it’s a fantasy, but it’s still very possible. It’s really easy to get rich by writing your own books.
Its like a drug, its hard to stop. The only thing that will stop it is yourself. Its probably the second most addictive thing after sex.
I think the best way to describe what I do is the idea of a “money factory.” Think of it as the mind factory. You’re in it when you’re thinking of a lot of stuff, and you’re thinking of it when you’re not. The more stuff you have, the more you can think about it, and the more you can start getting paid for it.
As you can imagine, a book is a bit of a minefield of ideas. Ideas can be very important to you, and ideas can get you into trouble. You can spend months writing a book, and then your friend reads it, and youve written your next book and its so much better than your original that you just need to start over.
This might be a bit of an exaggeration, but the more you think about a topic, the more likely you are to write about it again. Thats because even if you have a decent idea for a book, you probably wont be ready to write it until you actually have something to write about. This is why writers need to have a backlog. A backlog is an idea that youve been thinking about and going back to it over and over. Its there, waiting to be written.
I wrote about james duff before he was famous, so I know that he was a pretty big deal. This is because I read his book, The Last Resort, and it caused me to write this. But it’s not just with james duff that the backlog is important. For example, when I was a teenager I wrote a book called the Dirty Dozen. This was a book about a series of sex-games and blackmail and organized crime.
I know, it was a huge book. It was so much more graphic than the Dirty Dozen, but I still had to write it and get it published. The book actually sold over 150,000 copies, and it was kind of an instant success. I got an advance and a publishing contract and it came out in 1985, so it was kind of an instant success. It was one of the most talked about books of the decade.