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Hey.
I'm Mr Prolific.
I chose this name because 1) I'm a prolific writer and 2) I want to be known for being a prolific writer. It's one of my skills, and it's the one I intend to lean into.
I will be making my fortune starting out with writing and self publishing. Long term there are other things I will dive into, but for the short-medium term writing is where I have the skills, knowledge and opportunity to make money.
I will make a follow along thread to go into more detail about my short and medium range plans in that regard. I'll link it here shortly. In the meantime, I thought I'd introduce myself here, skipping over the boring stuff and focusing on the entrepreneurial bits and pieces.
When I was 11, a sweet shop near my home sold delicious sour strips which my school's tuck shop did not sell. I bought them up for about 5p each and sold them for 60p each at school. This was my first time making money.
When I was about 12, I had a big collection of computer and gaming magazines (early-mid 90s). They published cheat codes for games. You know, up down up down left right left right select start etc. I collected a whole bunch of cheat codes for different games, paid a small amount to put an ad in the back of a magazine, and then sold "cheat sheets" with dozens of different game cheat codes. I made a bit of cash from that.
When I was about 13, I washed cars. Me and a couple of friends went door to door, offering to wash people's cars. We made pretty good money for 13 year olds. Much more than...
When I was 16 I got my first job. I worked in a library for four pounds and twelve pence per hour. Four hours a week. Of course, it had benefits such as a month's vacation etc. since it was a government job and they had to follow the law, but when I thought about it, the pay was way worse than what I earned washing cars or selling cheat sheets as a younger kid. But it was an actual job (as in, someone else was hiring and paying me to do it), and so my family greatly approved of this one.
After that, I had a tough time mentally. I lost my confidence for a variety of reasons and I didn't do much entrepreneurial for a long time. It's always been in my blood though. I had ideas. I had plans. I had no confidence to execute them. I missed out on countless opportunities I'm sure, but so have we all.
I traveled the world. I lived and worked in the US, Aus, Korea, England, Scotland, Spain. I visited dozens of others. I worked for other people pretty much all that time, with the occasional spark.
Now, I'm going back to my roots. I'm an entrepreneur again -- as I always was.
I currently work as a ghostwriter, writing cozy mystery fiction, with one client for whom I've written around 25 novels.
Over the next 6 months, I will publish my own work and earn enough that I can quit the ghostwriting.
Over the next 12 months, I will get my income to the highest it's been in my life time. (Not a huge stretch.)
After that I will reassess. If I carry on solely writing I want $1mm/year within 3 years. I may do something else though. I have a lot of other ideas. My first goal is to regain my independence by not having to work for anyone else. I have the skill, knowledge and a plan to achieve this within 6 months. Once I have achieved that, I will have more creative energy to pour into my own writing, or alternatively the time to pour into something else.
I am a good fiction writer.
I am a prolific fiction writer.
And I know how to serve a small number of markets.
In 2014, while working a salaried job, I had some fiction writing success. On my best day I made a thousand bucks. In my best month I made about $8,000. For several years I made 4 figures a month. But I didn't follow up with it. I didn't push it. I let it slip away. I was sick and blah blah blah but whatever. I had an opportunity and I didn't snatch it.
Now, my own, independent income from the royalties of my past books is barely a couple of hundred bucks a month. I have to work for someone else to survive. That is not acceptable. It's time to get back to making money for me instead of someone else. It's time to start working for me instead of someone else. It's time to write for me instead of someone else. My words, my money.
That's me. That's my introduction.
I will make another process thread where I go into detail about my upcoming plans (mostly following a 12-week year methodology) and follow up on my execution as it progresses.
But for now, this is it.
Hi.
And thanks, @MJ DeMarco , for the books and for this place. Millionaire Fastlane was the first 'digital' book I ever bought -- it must have been more than a decade ago -- and it's been gnawing at the back of my mind for years. I looked up you/the book again recently and found this place. Wish I'd found the forum earlier, but regrets aren't for me. Now is perfectly timed.
I'm Mr Prolific.
I chose this name because 1) I'm a prolific writer and 2) I want to be known for being a prolific writer. It's one of my skills, and it's the one I intend to lean into.
I will be making my fortune starting out with writing and self publishing. Long term there are other things I will dive into, but for the short-medium term writing is where I have the skills, knowledge and opportunity to make money.
I will make a follow along thread to go into more detail about my short and medium range plans in that regard. I'll link it here shortly. In the meantime, I thought I'd introduce myself here, skipping over the boring stuff and focusing on the entrepreneurial bits and pieces.
When I was 11, a sweet shop near my home sold delicious sour strips which my school's tuck shop did not sell. I bought them up for about 5p each and sold them for 60p each at school. This was my first time making money.
When I was about 12, I had a big collection of computer and gaming magazines (early-mid 90s). They published cheat codes for games. You know, up down up down left right left right select start etc. I collected a whole bunch of cheat codes for different games, paid a small amount to put an ad in the back of a magazine, and then sold "cheat sheets" with dozens of different game cheat codes. I made a bit of cash from that.
When I was about 13, I washed cars. Me and a couple of friends went door to door, offering to wash people's cars. We made pretty good money for 13 year olds. Much more than...
When I was 16 I got my first job. I worked in a library for four pounds and twelve pence per hour. Four hours a week. Of course, it had benefits such as a month's vacation etc. since it was a government job and they had to follow the law, but when I thought about it, the pay was way worse than what I earned washing cars or selling cheat sheets as a younger kid. But it was an actual job (as in, someone else was hiring and paying me to do it), and so my family greatly approved of this one.
After that, I had a tough time mentally. I lost my confidence for a variety of reasons and I didn't do much entrepreneurial for a long time. It's always been in my blood though. I had ideas. I had plans. I had no confidence to execute them. I missed out on countless opportunities I'm sure, but so have we all.
I traveled the world. I lived and worked in the US, Aus, Korea, England, Scotland, Spain. I visited dozens of others. I worked for other people pretty much all that time, with the occasional spark.
Now, I'm going back to my roots. I'm an entrepreneur again -- as I always was.
I currently work as a ghostwriter, writing cozy mystery fiction, with one client for whom I've written around 25 novels.
Over the next 6 months, I will publish my own work and earn enough that I can quit the ghostwriting.
Over the next 12 months, I will get my income to the highest it's been in my life time. (Not a huge stretch.)
After that I will reassess. If I carry on solely writing I want $1mm/year within 3 years. I may do something else though. I have a lot of other ideas. My first goal is to regain my independence by not having to work for anyone else. I have the skill, knowledge and a plan to achieve this within 6 months. Once I have achieved that, I will have more creative energy to pour into my own writing, or alternatively the time to pour into something else.
I am a good fiction writer.
I am a prolific fiction writer.
And I know how to serve a small number of markets.
In 2014, while working a salaried job, I had some fiction writing success. On my best day I made a thousand bucks. In my best month I made about $8,000. For several years I made 4 figures a month. But I didn't follow up with it. I didn't push it. I let it slip away. I was sick and blah blah blah but whatever. I had an opportunity and I didn't snatch it.
Now, my own, independent income from the royalties of my past books is barely a couple of hundred bucks a month. I have to work for someone else to survive. That is not acceptable. It's time to get back to making money for me instead of someone else. It's time to start working for me instead of someone else. It's time to write for me instead of someone else. My words, my money.
That's me. That's my introduction.
I will make another process thread where I go into detail about my upcoming plans (mostly following a 12-week year methodology) and follow up on my execution as it progresses.
But for now, this is it.
Hi.
And thanks, @MJ DeMarco , for the books and for this place. Millionaire Fastlane was the first 'digital' book I ever bought -- it must have been more than a decade ago -- and it's been gnawing at the back of my mind for years. I looked up you/the book again recently and found this place. Wish I'd found the forum earlier, but regrets aren't for me. Now is perfectly timed.
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