Rachel Small has been writing fiction for as long as she can remember; short stories and fantasy tales, etc.I hate desperation and I hate being desperate. About anything.
Yes, I’d like to be able to make oodles of cash off the internet or even a few quid, but I don’t like the desperate measures that seem to be required in order to do so.
Red Flags
Ads for the Make Money Now! group(s) have become nothing more than red flags that signal very large financial potholes in the fast lane of the Internet Highway. Click on one and it will glom onto you like a pond leach of epic proportions and try to suck you dry of every last cent.
Offers to teach you how to do the same (for a nominal fee, of course) sicken me and only tend to speed my flight in the completely opposite direction.
Don’t Give Up: Define Your Priorities
Unfortunately, if your priorites are to make money and make it right now this very instant, then stop reading and go elsewhere. Hopefully you’ll find that proverbial needle in the not-so-proverbial haystack of Internet BS that will help you do that.
Privately, I have doubts that needle exists; you can make money, but it’s a long, hard road of work, learning and most of all, persistance.
I decided to take my writing back to what I enjoy – fantasy fiction and storytelling.
Oh, I did enjoy writing articles and still write them. Just not daily, or with desperation born of wanting to make an almighty dollar. I’m still tending this blog, too, but only when I have something to say (even if it’s to myself 
) and am passionate enough to express a few feeble thoughts.
My Book
My ultimate Mecca is my book, The Wrath of Mool. Not a very scholarly tome, but mine. I want to finish it and start another. I already know that Wrath is a clumsy, first attempt, but I have plans to keep on writing. Writing to finish this book; writing to start a next book. And so on.
Why? Because I enjoy it. I enjoy the process of telling the story and putting it all down on paper – yes, I write it out in long-hand before transcribing it into Word – and I particularly enjoy having people read my tale and say…
“Whoa! That’s cool!”
… or whatever.
I’d like to make some cash for my retirement, but for now, I’ll just stick with writing for the fun of it.
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