I swear it is for my own good

[Deleted member 68927]

From here on out, I will think of my writing as just a hobby and treat it as such. I will never try to monetize it again. That takes all the joy out of it, makes me depressed, and eats my will to write. So I have decided (drumroll) to focus on my German, so I can sell my soul for around 40–50 years to the corporate Devil and write every day while doing so.

I am no longer an author. I am just a writer.

Hm, that wasn't hard to admit.

Happy writing, everyone!

 

[Masked_writer]

Thanks, you too

 

[RobBanks]

That's fine, isn't it? Live for something that you think makes you happy, not the contrary. If making your passions into business doesn't work out, pushing any further will only make you hate them in the long run.

 

[Dieter]

It amazing to me how much you can write, and it's also actually a shock to me that you wrote for money all this time, at least in the back of your mind for some of your stories. I always thought you just wrote them for the heck of it. So yea, keep writing even if you give up making the bucks.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Depending on your job, age and entry conditions just being a parasite and living off of welfare might also be a legit option.

I know damn well I'm tempted to just register myself as jobless and live the hiki-neet life you know out of anime...

Anyway, that's life. Not everything works out, dreams and ambitions even less so than everything else. Good luck and hf, tho.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

It amazing to me how much you can write, and it's also actually a shock to me that you wrote for money all this time, at least in the back of your mind for some of your stories. I always thought you just wrote them for the heck of it. So yea, keep writing even if you give up making the bucks.

I started off as a hobby, then I had a 3-month period when I wrote for money, but my stories weren't being read, unless there was a promotion going, which ended up a good thing because that made me brush up on my German language skills. And recently, I thought that I could earn some money with my German stories and Patreon, but that just put me in the dumps. I have a writing addiction, which makes me calmer and happier. But every time I think about Money in connection to my writing, I just feel as if it is a chore.

Writing is my me time. My therapy and a way to connect to others. I don't want for it to be a chore.

 

[J_Chemist]

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Good for you. Enjoying something changes the thing.
Honestly, when I stopped writing for someone else and just started writing the story I wanted, I swear, my quality and skill improved 20-fold.