As a writer many people ask me; How do you make a living? Well, I am pretty much retired really so for me it is not a chosen profession and I am well aware that most writers are broke and well, I just never wanted to be broke I guess? Incidentally I am a retired entrepreneur; a doer in my opinion and all my life I always considered writers to be writers and not doers. In fact I use to have an extremely low opinion of writers for that reason. Nevertheless along my entrepreneurial journeys, I had actually written many things, such as Operations Manuals for my Companies, 1000s upon 1000s of pages in all. I had accidentally ended up a co-author of a book due to the fact I was on the board of directors for an industry group. Then I had written of all thing an eBook for the public, way back in 1997 when there really was no such thing called; How To Run a Successful Car Wash Fundraiser. Recently someone wrote me an email thanking me for writing this book, which I had completely forgotten about. But it remains online free and has been downloaded almost 100,000 times over the years and it is popular but it will never go Platinum? So I told the gentleman; Regarding the car wash fundraiser book, indeed it is good and reality based and should be passed on to the school system for their sports programs and such in any case. In the end all the money has to come from somewhere you see. I am glad you like the Fundraiser Book, I have done so many things like that in my life; Plans, Projects, Programs, I think I automatically do it every time I see a problem now in our civilization; everything from catching terrorists and redesigning border patrol systems to disaster relief strategies and environmental programs. I think it is a habit from all my civic stuff from my 20's that makes it second nature really. I would advise all people with knowledge to put down information in eBooks, which can help people and if you can afford to; do it free of charge as a way to give back to the world all it has given you. Please consider my philosophical comments in 2006. |
