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Where are the writers who love writing?
Does no one just write for the sake of having fun writing anymore?
A rant about writers who hate writing, and can’t stop writing about how much they hate writing. If you HATE writing so much, why the fuck are you writing about how much you hate writing? Do something you love to do instead of bitching about doing things you don’t want to do to begin with — no one is forcing you to write, so if you hate writing, just don’t write!
So, I was just reading some random articles by random writers, like I do almost daily, in the topic of “writing” and “writing tips” and “writers on writing” and “writing fiction tips”.
I like reading those topics because I usually gain some new insight I hadn’t thought of before, or learn some obscure grammar rule I did not know about. I end up trying out new things in my own writing after reading other writers share their experiences.
Reading the experiences of other writers, things they’ve learned while writing, is probably my favourite non-fiction topic to read.
It is by far the topic I read most when reading non-fictions.
And there is a rather disturbing trend that I have noticed of late.
It’s a thing writers have always talked about, but it was rare: the frustration of waiting to write… I’ll explain what I mean in a minute.
But first…
In my early days on the internet, it was easy to find fellow writers who joyfully yip-yapped, the hyper puppy excitement of how much fun writing was.
I started blogging in 1996, started my author website in 1996, and started daily writing for fanfiction.net also in 1996–3 places I still write daily, now 28 years later and have over 20k blog posts, articles, and short stories to show for it — that oddly, have never earned me a single penny because those 3 sites do not have monetization options.
In the 1990s and early 2000s NO ONE on the ENTIRE INTERNET was monetized, because ads for the internet had not yet been invented.
Places like YouTube and Medium were around a full decade before they started paying creators. YouTube started paying creators in 2015, while Medium started paying creators in 2017. Both sites had existed a full ten years before offering to pay members.
Tumblr, FanFiction.net, WattPad, RoyalRoad, AO3, and hundreds of others, have been around twenty years or more and have not YET started paying writers, yet they each have millions of writers, joyfully writing daily without any expectation of getting paid.
Can you see where I’m going with this?
In 2020, there was a massive boom in writers on ALL platforms everywhere, from Amazon to GumRoad too Medium to Tumblr to RoyalRoad to Vocal… you name it, and it gained double it’s members in a single month, from how many members it had gained total in over a decade. Each site made announcements of the numbers.
But… by 2021… a shift happened.
A big one.
One that started out as a tiny snowflake, became a snowball, grew to an avalanche, and is now in 2025 a great big fucking iceburge barrelling through every writing platform out there.
What is it?
Money.
Greedy, slovenly, lustful, desire for money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money…
…sure… getting paid for your writing is great.
Yes, if the option is there, I turn on monetization for every platform I write on.
But… of over thirty different platforms I write on, only five pay me anything.
Think about that for a minute.
These 5 pay me:
That’s it.
The other 25+ platforms I write on, do not pay me a penny, and yet I write on each of them multiple times a week, some daily.
So why do I write on them?
Because writing is fun.
And a lot of people can’t afford to buy monthly subscriptions.
And that’s where the trend I’m seeing a LOT of the last couple of years comes in.
Back at the start of this page I said this:
So, I was just reading some random articles by random writers, like I do almost daily, in the topic of “writing” and “writing tips” and “writers on writing” and “writing fiction tips”.I like reading those topics because I usually gain some new insight I hadn’t thought of before, or learn some obscure grammar rule I did not know about. I end up trying out new things in my own writing after reading other writers share their experiences.Reading the experiences of other writers, things they’ve learned while writing, is probably my favourite non-fiction topic to read.It is by far the topic I read most when reading non-fictions.And there is a rather disturbing trend that I have noticed of late.It’s a thing writers have always talked about, but it was rare: the frustration of waiting to write… I’ll explain what I mean in a minute.
Let’s explain what I mean now.
So, today, just now, I was just reading some random articles by random writers, like I do almost daily, in the topic of “writing” and “writing tips” and “writers on writing” and “writing fiction tips”…
…and…
…well…
…I can’t find a single article published in the past week, in ANY of those topics, that expresses ANY kind of joy in writing.
Every one of them is endless woe is me, pity party doom and gloom of:
To me, it seems like so many people have lost the joy of writing.
But I am left asking: if money is the ONLY thing motivating them to write, why the fuck did they start writing to begin with?
I mean really… did they do ZERO research into the average income of the average writer?
For those who didn’t it’s this:
Here’s a thought:
McDonalds and WalMart, two of the lowest paying corps in the world, pay more than $200 a day.
You can earn more money in a SINGLE DAY working at either McDonald’s or WalMart, then you can in 6 months writing on platforms like Medium and Vocal and Amazon and GumRoad.
Working just TWO DAYS at McDonald’s or WalMart, will earn you more money then the average writer will earn in an ENTIRE YEAR.
Chew on that for a minute.
Really stop and think about it.
Then ask yourself: Why the fuck, did you ever get it into your head, writing, of ANY TYPE, would earn you any money at all?
If you want money, get a fucking job!
Writing is NOT a job.
It really isn’t.
That’s a harsh reality that thee money grubbers don’t want to face.
It’s the harsh reality that keeps MILLIONS of writers writing daily on Tumblr and AO3 for ZERO pay. They KNOW most people spit on writers and won’t pay writers shit, so they don’t even bother to try. Instead they just focus on writing as a joyfully outlet of fun expression.
It doesn’t matter how good you are at writing either. Some of the best writers out there get the lowest pay of all!
Writing is not easy.
It takes a combination of talent and skill.
You can learn both, but it takes decades to learn either.
Decades you will have to spend writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing … for years on end… BEFORE you will even see a single penny.
Yes. Once in a great while, one writer out of millions will make a shit tonne load of money, and yes, it COULD happen to you… but you’ve a better chance of getting hit by lighten — TWICE!
And newsflash:
But also:
You can not expect to succeed if every morning you sit there thinking:
“UGH! I hate doing this!”
And THAT, that right there, is the trend I am seeing.
I’m NOT seeing writers yapping cheerfully about the immense joy they get from writing.
All I am seeing is endless articles on the topic of:
“UGH! I hate doing this!”
“UGH! I hate writing!”
“UGH! I hate editing!”
“UGH! I hate learning grammar!”
“UGH! I hate doing this! How long do I have to force myself to write before the money comes in?”
I am constantly baffled by why so many complain about money.
For me it was never about money, so I was not focused on thinking “which topic to write to make money” or “what title will get more clicks” or “how do I get more claps/comments/whatever”. Which resulted in, I have NEVER earned hardly any money here at all.
Yes, I agree money here is very low, but I did not join expecting it to be high.
Heck, when I joined, I did not even realize makin money was an option.
I was just looking for more outlets to reach more readers, that might not have found me work otherwise.
No writing platform has a history of consistently high wages for any writer. Sure, all platforms have one or two writers who make it big, but those are always flukes and not the norm.
There is always only one making a good income while millions more are making pennies. I’ve seen it with every writing platform, so I had no reason to think this one would be any different.
But, yeah, that mindset, of not looking at this platform as an income source, but rather as looking at it as a way to gain additional readers, that was what has kept me going all this time, when most days my earnings are under .50c a day.
In over a year I’ve only had three months reach $30 (a dollar a day), the rest are rarely over $12. (under fifty cents a day).
But, here’s the thing. I’m working on a series of books that are to be published in 2027, a set of short story collections. And my motivation to daily work on the project kept lagging.
So I decided, why not set a goal to write them “live” online, every day publish a story or two or three, however many I wrote that day.
And it worked.
After a few weeks of daily posting here, suddenly my lagging motivation soared into obsessively trying not to miss a day. And now a year later, I’ve completed the first 3 volumes of the set and am working on the next 3.
Here’s the drafts in progress:
I think, long term, getting these books finished is a better goal then fussing over if the stories make money online, and online platforms are helping me so much to keep on track of getting this project finished.
For me the long term goals (in my case getting these manuscripts finished) are more important then the distractions of trying to grab a few pennies on the way.
Writing is fun and I feel sorry for the people who are so blinded by money they lost the plot on having fun writing.
Writing is fun.
And so that is why, while others are leaving, I’m still here writing daily.
Because writing is fun.
I write things I find fun to write.
I have fun writing about fun characters, I have fun sending those fun characters to fun worlds, and I have fun giving those fun characters, fun things to do, in those fun worlds.
Let me repeat that, with examples:
I have fun writing about fun characters:
How well do I know Quaraun? — Let’s find out!
Meet The Characters:
The Pink Necromancer Index Part 2medium.com
I have fun sending those fun characters to fun worlds:
and I have fun giving those fun characters, fun things to do, in those fun worlds:
The Terror Bird
{A Pink Necromancer Story} — {NaNoWriMo 2024: Day 09}medium.com
The Fluffy Pink Disaster, a LitRPG fiction short
A Pink Necromancer Fiction Shortmedium.com
The Moon Goddess Laughs From The Rooftops, a fiction short
A Pink Necromancer Fiction Shortmedium.com
A Flapdoodle Wizard’s Duel 🌸🦄🌸
🌸🦄🌸{A Pink Necromancer Short Story} 🌸🦄🌸medium.com
BoomFuzzy’s Chowder Dilemma
A Pink Necromancer Fiction Shortmedium.com
The Phooka’s Dragon School, a short fiction story
A Pink Necromancer Fiction Shortmedium.com
A Very Important Clump of Grass
🌸{A Pink Necromancer Short Story} 🦄🌸medium.com
…and on places that have NEVER paid me a penny:
The Quaraun Series Prologue
The Quaraun Series Prologue www.eelkat.com
The Golden Dragon Keys
A Pink Necromancer Short Story} 🌸🦄🌸vocal.media
The Sweet and Sour of Lemons
The Sweet and Sour of Lemons, a short fiction storywww.eelkat.com
The Herd Approaches
The Herd Approaches, a long-short fiction storywww.eelkat.com
Pickling Perfection
Pickling Perfectionwww.eelkat.com
And because I have fun writing fun characters doing fun things in fun places… I never get bored with writing, and I always have motivation to write, and money never takes precedent or dictates what I write.
I am not a slave to money.
Money is not my dictator.
This world has enough dictators already. It doesn’t need more.
You are a fool if you let money be the lord and saviour who dictats when and what you write.
I see so many people complain they can’t write until they niche down, can’t write until they take a course, can’t write until some other thing happens… why?
I don’t get it.
Why can’t they just sit down and something that they find fun to write about?
Just write.
Write now.
It’s not that hard.
You’ll never get BETTER at writing, if you don’t first START writing.
But, you’ll HATE the process of getting better if you do not first find writing to be FUN.
Writing is fun.
But so many writers seem to not know that.
Does no one just write for the sake of having fun writing anymore?
If writing is your passion, stop waiting around and just start writing.
If money is your passion, forget writing and get a fucking job.
And if you start writing and later realize, it’s not fun, you don’t like it… guess what? There’s no shame in stopping. You don’t have to force yourself to write. You can quit and say “I tried it, I didn’t like it, it wasn’t for me.” No shame in that at all. Writing is not for everyone. Maybe you like drawing instead. Or growing roses. Or playing video games. There are plenty of things out their you can try. Try them all, until you find something you DO enjoy, something that is FUN for you.
Life’s too short to waste it on things that are not fun.
Writing, like any other hobby, CAN make money, but rare is it for ANY hobby to bring in enough money to be an income.
That’s the part modern writers of 2025 seem to have forgotten.
Writing is a hobby first and foremost. And like ANY hobby, writing is incredibly difficult to make an income off of, and THAT is why you MUST love writing so much, that you can do it daily for years without pay.
I see so many giving up writing, citing lack of fun, because of lack of money, lack of fun because of lack of feedback, lack of fun because of lack of anyone leaving comments.
I fail to understand why their fun must be so dependant upon others.
Fun comes from within.
When you rely on outside sources for your fun, you will NEVER have fun.
The fun has not gone for me, but my goals have never been either money or recognition or engagement, and I think that makes a difference.
Like, if you are motivated by earnings, you lose motivation when earnings drop.
Or if you thrive of others given you thumbs up gold stars of approval, then lack of being told how great your writing is, kills the desire to write.
And, if you are a social butterfly looking to write for the sake of having someone to talk to in comments, well, lack of comments will kill the fun fast.
My goal is publication. Not publication on a platform, but rather publication of a printed paperback book. So, I’m not motivated by earnings here, and it doesn’t matter is others acknowledge my work, and I have no interest in yip yapping in the comments of my work either.
I write daily wither I post it online or not.
I publish barely a 10th of what I write.
I write 20 to 30 stories every day, but I only publish 1 or 2.
So lack of any one of those three things does noting to remove the fun, because for me those three things are NOT fun to begin with. In fact, they are often annoyances that get in my way and I am more likly to LOSE motivation with higher earnings, higher feedback, or higher comments.
I guess that makes me weird. I’ve been told it is a side effect of having been born female in a culture that does not allow education. Aka social workers have informed me that because I never went to school, and because I was 31 years old first time I had contact with a human who was not a parent, uncle, or sibling, that I have a marked lack of “normal social desires” meaning I am able to function 100% separate from any form of connections and do not have any normal desires to seek out interactions on social levels.
The social workers call it “feral child syndrome” and explained I have zero ability to form emotional connections with humans, because I never learned to see humans as equals, so I do not seek to engage with humans nor do I seek the approval of humans.
I’m not sure exactly what to think of that assessment, but, that was what the social workers said was going on. Basically my brain never learned to reach out to other humans for any level of “do you like what I did?” which social workers have informed me is something most people do, but only because they learned that behaviour in public school, via seeking teacher approval of grading papers. They said people like myself who never attended public schools, never are taught to seek approval of others for work we do, and are also never taught to constantly seek out talking with others.
They also pointed out my issues with money — a severe lack of any desire for money- which the social workers attributed to my never having seen money prior to being 42 years old, so I have no normal concept of earning income, due to we always lived off the land, growing and making everything ourselves.
That study was done by a team of psychologists from Australia who came here to Maine to do said study of me in 2010. The social workers in the decade since have be trying to teach me money and “human interaction” with much levels of failure as they have yet to convince me there is a reason for me to learn money or why I should want others to care about my work.
The fact of the matter is, I am perfectly content to write about fictional characters, whom I have fun writing about, and because I have fun writing them, I have absolutely ZERO need for any level of emotional engagement with humans. Much to the deep annoyance of the social workers.
And that pulls over into Medium. Where money does not motivate me because, I can’t even count. Seeking the approval of Humans does not motivate me because — I can barely understand anything Humans do and their behaviour is so bizarre that I am left wondering why the fuck would I WANT to seek their approval. And the act of back and forth engagement seems utterly pointless and do not understand why people do it, so that doesn’t motivate me either.
You need to stop looking to others as your source of motivation.
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I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life.
Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).
NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.
ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.
In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters. I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.
Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.
I DO NOT write Erotica.
I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.
The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
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And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.
The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.
Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy.
So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.
There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.
The FBI is looking for information into:
I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:
146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.
How did you build your audience?
Not online, that's for sure.
aka How to sell ten million books
aka How I sold ten million books.
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(just the article)
or
The Park Bench Method of Writing
(with the list of 10k writing prompts - takes a LONG TIME to load - SEVERAL MINUTES!)
I Think UFO and Alien Believers Are Weird Here's Why...
Does every writer have to deal with this shit?
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