Update: On My Personal Life and Chapter Updates · 11:37pm Jun 28th, 2019
Usually, I don't like to talk about my personal life, but this is getting to a point where it affects what I do here and I need to explain more how what happens in my life affects my activities on this website, as well as the why I am desperately asking for donations/waiting on Commissions on Ko-FI.
Now, if any of you remember my last post, I was talking about how I needed money to pay up my internet: since the current form I use only provides you 1GB for every BsS. 5.000 (it used to be 1GB x $ but the inflation keeps going up, the dollar now is at almost BsS. 8.000) and I was asking mainly to pay up the internet needed to keep on writing in here.
After the months passing by, the situation has gotten worsen, for my ISP still hasn't fixed my internet connection (gone since May 7th of 2019) and I'm using the internet very conservatively to not spend as much money as I possibly can on my Phone módem. The same way, I'm also in the need of dollars to buy food since (being a celiac) I have a very expensive diet on a very asphyxiated economy.
Just for a month, I need to spend 5$ a month/4Kg of flour to make arepas as breakfast/dinner (1Kg per week), 7$ a month/4Kg of lenteja (1Kg each week) and 5$ a month/4Kg of rice for lunch (1Kg per week); and, the worst part, this is only the price of food I know I can measure correctly. There are other things I need for food whose price's vary too much for me to add into this calculation (like vegetables, which can go up to 10$ a month or cheese for celiacs, which can cost over 8$ a month or more) or better I cut completely; like dinner, since the only cereal I can find cost 10$ a box which, added the price of almond milk and upping it to a month, it can cost over 80$ and other things I could go to for dinner could add the cost up to 14$ or so.
All of this (including the cost for dinner and/or the foods which prices vary too much, except cereal) creates a total amount of 49$ for monthly food.
I know 49$ on a monthly basis, just for food, doesn't sounds too expensive for most of you but the minimum (and only) wage in Venezuela is 5$ and those 49$ needed, for food, are just to survive and nothing else. This doesn't take into account the price of medicines, the bills (electricity, water, the house, healthcare, the internet, etc) repairing anything that gets broken on the house, the cat (her vaccines cost 80$ total), etc.
This is the reason why I am asking for donations and also why I decided to start commissions. This isn't to say that I don't have any plans to write stories, in fact, I have committed myself to write more chapters. In example: I already wrote two new chapters for The Redemption of a Never Ambition which are going to be published on September and December respectively.
But, if you donate to me, I could have more time to focus on this story (since I'll have money to buy food and pay the bills) and publish more chapters at a faster pace.
And I could do the same with other stories I write that you may like, if you want me to write more, just donate me and I'll focus more on them and I'm not asking for constant money , just on a monthly basis or even just once; and it doesn't have to be much money, just 3$ (which is what the site tells me a Ko-Fi is worth, I'm not sure if I can reduce the minimum) so I can have some money to buy the food I need to keep on writing.
You can find my Ko-Fi in here.
Thank you all for reading, have a nice day.
I wish you the best of luck, sadly i don't really have any control over finances and money due to some circumstances in my family. It will be settled but as of now it has yet to be
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Thanks.
Hey I usually don’t donate to people I don’t know on the internet but because your situation actually sounds dire I’d be willing to contribute when I get paid here in a couple weeks. A few dollars a month won’t put any dents into my earnings considering that adjusted for inflation the average wage in Venezuela is less than what I make an hour.
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Thanks.
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of course friend