Officially Self Employed (important) · 2:04pm Jul 27th, 2016

Okay, I know I was all jovial, and enthusiastic yesterday, but today is more serious, because that's how I am. You all saw me after a good ride where I was telling myself that I was doing the right thing, that the plan would work, such like that. After I made my blog though, I talked to, at least, half a dozen different people, with varying degrees of experience in the indie creative field, and took a good, long, hard look at what it might take.

For me to survive like this, bare essentials, will take 850 dollars a month. This means, due to the amount taken by paypal, approximately 950 dollars worth of commissions, a month. This means 95 thousand words, something... I actually think I can do. This is my job now, and you all know my love for shorts and such, so pumping out at least three-thousand words a day I believe is very do-able. And, of course, here is my commission info, and the short of it, for those possibly on mobile.

$10.00 (U.S.) per 1k
Open to clop or not clop
Any genre
Most fetishes
I round up after 700 words.

Just send me a message with the commission, and we'll start talking.

Now, I do know commissions are an unstable game. Some months, I'll get more than I could possibly ever handle (though I do not plan to close my commissions almost ever), others, I'll get so few that I'll wonder how I'm going to pay rent. But, that is the choice I have given myself, because at my job, I was going mad, almost suicidally depressed even, and I just couldn't make it. In fact, today they were going to need to write me up for my attendance if I did not quit, and I would not have surprised myself if I had been fired in the coming weeks. So, instead, I left on my own terms, and take the options given to me.

Which, the other option than commissions, is of course, my patreon. It's charged monthly, so you don't need to worry about my production level bankupting you. Instead, you can donate money, and know that it goes to lowering the amount I have to write, so I can either begin to save some money, or work on other things, like the original fiction that the patreon was made for.

And I will keep trying to work on that. So on top of 95 thousand words, I'll be doing whatever typing on the side for my personal projects when I get a moment to spare, so if you want to see my worlds, or see some of my regular fanfiction continue to be expanded upon, I would suggest considering the patreon, and giving me the stability to do so.

And finally, just a small bit of wrap up for my side of life. My father despises this decision, my mother also disapproves, and my brother just lowered his sunglasses as I told him I quit, before saying that he might not actually be able to work either that day. So yeah, until I can prove that this works, I am on my own in real life. But, I have good friends around me, and a strong community that I know wants to see me succeed, so even though I'm nervous, even though I'm scared, I am determined to prove my family wrong, and show them what I can do.

And I thank you all for giving me the courage and long term support that has made me able to decide to follow my passion.

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