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marblesarelost · 2 years ago

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Okay, let's play a game.

Somebody out there please give me about $50K. I have to live on it for a year. Pay all my bills, etc.

In that year, I promise you, I could write a book. Hell, I could write a book through all three drafts, and probably be mid-second draft another by the time the year was up.

That's not nothing, friends and neighbors. Do you know how hard it is to write a goddamn book? It's fecking well HARD. I know. I've done it. Once to publish (it wasn't very good, but I learned from it and it's since been taken down once I actually realized how bad it was), once in fanfic (Dark Wings) and first/second drafted another (Raven's Flight).

Fuckin' news flash. People LOVED Dark Wings. And that was a fanfic, written in three weeks, no beta, no real drafting. Pretty much straight stream of consciousness. I fell behind on real life work, I fell behind in everything in my life, I ended up staying up three days straight the last few chapters so i could just get it done (and high DNR b/c hallucinations SUCK).

60K plus words. Beginning, middle, end. Did it need polish and work? Oh, yes. Desperately. It was stream of consciousness, after all.

Hell, for that matter, even for how much it sucked? OSaC had 4.5 star reviews on Amazon. Niche market, sure. But 4.5 stars and about $800 worth of sales. Not great for a first book, didn't even cover my costs (this was in 2012, cover art was EXPENSIVE) but 4.5 stars over about three years of it being up and available on Amazon.

So give me a year with enough money to pay my bills? And I can promise a really GOOD book. And like I said, probably at least halfway through the second.

Because people WANT to work. We do. People don't want to just sit around and swim in money. We WANT to work. We just want to work doing the things we're interested in, the things we love, the things that call to us. For me, that's writing. For someone else, it's welding. Someone else, it's learning how water systems work.

That's what we're meant to do. Pursue the things we love, the things that make our hearts sing. That's what Universal Basic Income could do for us.

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