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How to become a 21st century dime novelist.

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What is a 21st century dime novelist and why should you become one? Rated G

  1. You want to get paid for your work. You want earn something for your creative efforts.
  2. You can write at least 2k words a day and you have the ability to finish a story.
  3. You don’t give a damn about the love of the art. Your a business minded person. You are in it for the bag.

How to do it?

  1. Google is your friend by chatgpt is your lover that will give you the sources and companies to turn to.
  2. YouTube. If you can find an audience of people that enjoy a audiobook video or write a script for a content creator then you’ve got a audience and a bag.
  3. Plenty of sites online that will take on your work on their platforms and give a piece of the pie.
  4. Patreon. It’s a good site to build up your people that will grab on to your work and voice.
  5. Research people that make money from writing.

I believe in producing a product of art people value and will pay you for. I’m still a bard I love what I do but I’m also a capitalist. The market dictates the value of what you do.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

Advice to younger self: Get a Job and start a business on the side.

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Daily writing prompt
What advice would you give to your teenage self?
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When I was kid I was obsessed with reading,writing and video games. I had general beliefs about life and mortality.

The one thing I didn’t have was a direction or reason to work on a career. My focus was becoming a better writer.

Do I regret that?

No. I achieved my goal but I wished that I had had the experience of working a day job and starting a business on the side.

Business and Career.

I missed the bus on experiencing that shit in my 20s and early 30s though I had part time jobs here and there. I missed the grind of earning skills in that short time span of my life.

Starting a business late in life is tougher. You have to fail sooner and figure it out as you go along. Not much time for anything else or energy.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

Monetizing Your life

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I’ve been a entrepreneur seriously for the last five years with various projects and gigs all encorporated in one ball of the one person business model. Mainly, I’m a creator that has produced intellectual property with a side in services.

What’s it like?

Your always working and you never really have a down time because the game is always on and there is no pause button and I’ve failed more times then I can count at the game of business but I’m hard headed and I can’t seem to quit. Especially not now I’m beginning to see signs of success. Small steps.

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I was never good at video games growing up but I learned later in life to embrace failure. On certain types of games failure is apart of the game. You learn from every play-through and game over experience. You learn to analyze your mistakes and record and remember your success rate. Eventually you’ll beat the game because the more failures you rack up the more experiences you can learn from and not make again.

I slipped into the one person business model simply because I like creating stuff and my main talents lean toward communications, observations and analysis.

It’s been a difficult game to learn but I’ve come away with some lessons learned.

  1. If it works keep doing and perfect it over time.
  2. If it doesn’t work figure out if it’s worth the time and if you can perfect it but keep doing what works on the side.
  3. Quality matters and critical advice good or bad is information to analyze.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

Money talk: The Richest man in Babylon

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Just finished listening to the book and I have thoughts. I highly recommend the book for ages 10-40. Overall a good book and helpful in teaching basic financial discipline and budget mindset.

I got to this book late and some of the principles I have learned by experience or observations of highly effective productive people.

My favorite chapter is the luckiest man in babylon.

The jest of the book is parables of stories to illustrate how to grow, maintain and advance yourself in wealth.

The takeaways. I have two.

1.”Where the determination is the way can be found.”

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It is not enough to desire to have shit or cash. You have to have a determination. A will of Iron that there is no other way but to push forward and defeat or win over the enemy before you. Debt. Procrastination. Lack of Motivation.

Only when you have a determination then can be open to seeing a way or solution to defeating overcoming the challenges of gaining wealth or fearing yourself from slave mindset or en debted slavery.

Every man has to make a determination on what type of man they are. A slave or a free man. What class do you fit in?

2. Luck is found or created when you learn to enjoy working and mastering a skill.

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Lady lucky does exist. She just only pays attention to a dude who enjoys putting in long hours into perfecting his craft and getting the bag.

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When you make working your friend lady luck comes looking for you. Opportunities come looking for you and wealth is a by product of a determination to use work as a means to rise a step above the rest.

The principles of wealth are old and simple. It isn’t at a dice roll or at a gambling table. It’s 40 hrs a week at the day job, four hours a day at the side hustle and two hours a day studying your craft and pushing yourself to get to the top so that you can get two weeks at the beach with your girl and not worry about whether or not the bills will get paid.

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Warm Regards

Guardiandogg