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How I Quit My Job And Became A Full-Time Writer—And How You Can Too
Let me tell you a story.
Eight years ago (has it been almost a decade already?) I graduated from college with a degree in creative writing — a degree most people in my life thought was a fast-track to a barista job at Starbucks.
Not me.
I loved to write. And I was determined to find a way to turn writing into a viable career.
My last class of senior year, my teacher (a published and “successful” author himself) said, “The publishing industry is dead.”
This had become our mantra all throughout college: nobody makes a living as a writer.
My peers hung their heads, defeated.
Not me.
I had grown up on the Internet.
At 17 years old, I was one of the highest ranked World of Warcraft players in North America. I had one of the first e-famous gaming blogs, with around 10,000 readers per day. I had always believed the Internet to be the gateway to turning dreams into realities. This ended up being the subject of my first book, Confessions of a Teenage Gamer.
“What about self-publishing?” I asked…
