Try and pay off yiur mortgage early then go for it.
But I'd do the serious shyt first, I'm all for following your dreams, but gotta think long and hard first.
Unless you wanna seriously downgrade your lifestyle?
Yeah that is the problem...I would seriously have to downgrade my lifestyle...well not really I live pretty cheap as it is, but I like to save money and I would not be saving ANY...and I am starting to rationalize some pretty extreme reasons as to how I can live off next to nothing...with no guarantee of actually making any money at all...
I actually had an agent offer to sign me to a book deal...1 book for...18,000
...and that was about it...18,000 for a book and for me to see royalties it would have to have sold 100,000 worldwide and I would have been getting a whopping 17 cents for every book sold after that...and that is all depending on their math as well, as they could very well, and other writers tell me publishing houses do this...pretty much stop reporting what is sold after you hit that mark...I was like
breh that MIGHT cover my rent and car note for a year...I was telling these other guys about it, like that was some sucka shyt deal and they were "fool that is a great deal for a first time writer
nobody knows who the fukk you are, why would they invest even that much in you
" shyt had me like
...but I don't think I am going to be able to get this book up to my standards without working on it full time, instead of a few hours here or there when I have time, since my job is so sporadic with the work...and plus I don't want to wake up 40 years old and be like "man I could have been...I could have did..."
So far I have just started slacking off at work to devote more time to writing...but even that is getting tiresome as I am working about 20 hours on thursday, cramming a weeks worth of work into 1 day...
And the guy that a write for who has paid me pretty well, he's a creep and the stuff I wrote for him is some stuff I loathe writing ( some jesus freak stuff ). I only wrote it for him because he offered a big ass number and I was like " I'm down to write whatever for that amount" but now that there is a chance it might get picked up, I don't really want to spend all day writing a bunch of bullshyt no matter how big a check is...and script writing takes a LOT of work...I wrote the pilot over 20 times start to finish...and the company that MIGHT pick it up came back and is like...can you re-write this