Starving Writers

Writing web content is not what it used to be. There was a time where you could earn a decent amount of money but due to many changes, those days are over. I always pictured a real writer as someone locked away in a room, chain-smoking and surviving on coffee. Tucked away from the world, the writer would live on his own schedule writing late into the night while others slept. I threw myself into web content writing for a while and when I was deeply into it, I wrote faithfully every day (weekends included). I became very secluded from the outside world. My "world" was online. Aside from seeing family members, I had no real contact with anyone. I didn't mind it so much. For a while it was nice to escape the real world and believe that if I wrote faithfully I would eventually earn close to what I made working out in the "real" world. That dream is over. It just isn't going to happen and now is the time to focus on another way. I feel that I have a book or two inside me so as I continue to work to pay the bills, that dream will become a part of my new focus. If there are writers out there who still are making a decent amount of money writing web content, well, good for them. Sometimes I think you have to sell a part of yourself in order to make money this way. I have written things that I am not proud of but never compromised and sold out for a buck. Writing will always be something that I need to do and will enjoy but I am not going to starve to feed that passion.