As you might all be well aware by now, I have a genuine passion for writing and this blog of mine has turned into my very own escape from the dull, insecure, harsh or boring universe I am forced to drag along my pathetic existence. One thing is for sure, though: I would definitely love to truly make it as an artist, as a writer, as a world-renowned blogger or novelist, if you will. I guess that, as each day comes and goes, my visions as a writer continue to change and evolve also. Here I am, right now, thinking I have quite a few options on an imaginary list I like to create every now and then, while in between serving tasty fine drinks and joyful cocktails to all-so-bored clients in the evening.

I could be a comic book writer!

I could be a comic book writer! After all, my friends always tell me that I do have a pretty good sense of humor and I make my clients laugh all the time – especially when I mix their drinks and serve them beer instead of wine and vice verse. Well, maybe this is not the best example of a funny thing I usually do or say. So maybe I’m not cut off to be a comic book writer after all, or maybe black humor or satire would best suit me. After all, I do have a tendency to make fun of the oh-not-so-very-thrilling life I am currently experimenting. I’m just going to pass on and put a question mark to the right of this career in writing.

I could do advertising!

I could do advertising! I imagine I would make for an excellent advertiser, as I do know my way around words and computers, pictures and web site layouts or logos. I have a passion for computers and this is probably yet another thing you had no clue about so far. I used to take on all sorts of tasks involving cleansing data or data compilation when I was in high school during the IT class, and the teacher was always thrilled to have me help him. So I guess I could definitely write some pretty good ads or come up with some decent ideas for company logos or brand names and advertisements. But I guess advertising is not a career where “being decently good” is embraced easily. I would have to be top notch, top of the class, la crème de la crème. And I know I am anything but that at the moment. So I should probably put a pin in it as well.

How about becoming a screenwriter or songwriter?

Moving forward. How about becoming a screenwriter? After all, I love to go to the movies. Well, I guess going to the movies does not quite match any “I love coming up with ideas for new movies” scenario. Songwriter? I would also have to be pretty darn creative, and I guess I don’t really have a musical ear anyway. So I should probably cross that off the list also. I could probably make it as a travel writer, provided I would come across some treasure on my way home one fine evening – but for now, I guess I’m just going to stick to blog writing.

As anyone who regularly visits this blog knows only too well, I love to write. And it isn’t just the writing I like…I enjoy the thinking, the procrastinating, and the way an idea starts off as nothing and ends as (hopefully) something quite special. Writing is unlike any other craft because by using it, you can communicate your exact thoughts to someone else – millions, to be precise. Better than that, digital technology is ensuring that words live forever.

But even so, writing as a way of earning a living is tough. Really tough. The worst part about it is that you could spend 15 years writing a book only for nobody to actually want to read it. That’s not the same as in other industries, of course, where there is at least a modicum of assurance that you will get paid. Somehow, I doubt that if you called the manager of Crown Oil UK and said, “so how about working for a year on a half salary, the rest dependent on whether people like you and your work” you would get a response that I could repeat here.

…writing to these companies can never do any harm, and who knows? You may well get your foot in the door…

How, then, does one go about earning money from their writing?

Good question. Let’s look at 2 proven ways…

1) Earn money through your very own blog. Blogging, believe it or not, is big business nowadays. OK, so not everyone can earn money through their blog, but with monetizing blogs becoming that much easier, it’s just as possible for almost anyone.

2) Write for copywriting and advertising agencies: this one is a really good gig if you can get it, but the sad fact is that there is so much competition from India and the Philippines that all freelance writers tend to start off struggling quite badly. Still, writing to these companies can never do any harm, and who knows? You may well get your foot in the door of a really decent company who treat you great.

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Well, times have changed and we have a theoretical courses for even business activities. In fact, I heard people discussing the pros and cons of manual handling courses when they were having coffee in the coffee shop where I work. Well, the biggest disadvantage of such theoretical courses is that they will always chase the market and will never be in a position where they anticipate what the market requires well in advance. Just take the example of an individual trying to become a writer.

Writing schools keep track of the latest popular books and try to inculcate the writing styles in their educational system. No school can be in a position to anticipate which book is going to become a hit in the near future. Inculcating the writing styles of that particular book is what is going to make a huge difference to the life of an amateur writer.

Unfortunately, the only way an individual can anticipate this is by keeping the ears to the ground and anticipating what the public requires. I believe this is true for all courses that mix practice with theory. Unless there is heavy emphasis on the practical aspects, that is very little chance of the theoretical aspects making a difference in the long run.

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What I’d give to live back in the day. Back in the day things were so much simpler. For example, you could do almost anything without a license, and besides that, if you did need a license it was pretty much handed out. There were a few draw-backs, of course – the Plague, all kinds of other horrible diseases and worst of all no internet! – but in the main it seems to me like it was an easier time.

One thing which was easy was insurance: as in there wasn’t any. Nowadays you have to have everything insured. You even have to have your insurance insured by other things just in case! To my mind that’s pretty much ridiculous.

Back in the day – if we’re talking caravans, for example – you just made a caravan out of wood. Let’s say that in a time before caravans you wanted an additional compartment to your horse-drawn carriage. Simple! You just made one out of any old wood you could find and attached it and drove away. After that, you’d only ever get in trouble if you murdered someone. I’m sure that getting in trouble for not being insured back then was virtually unheard of.

In short, you have to have it and you have no choice. There’s no point in complaining about it either, because of course that won’t do any good at all.

Nowadays Caravan insurance is a completely different story. You’ll want to have it just in case your caravan gets burned down by youth – which would have been something to laugh at the impossibility of if we hadn’t just experienced the worst riots in history – and you can’t go on holiday. You’ll also need to have it for legal reasons. In short, you have to have it and you have no choice. There’s no point in complaining about it either, because of course that won’t do any good at all.

The future of insurance, I hope, is going to be better than it has been (and let’s face it…in terms of spending stupid money on premiums it’s unlikely, I think, to get a whole lot worse any time soon). Who knows, maybe the insurance companies will get so fed up with their job that they’ll just all close down and leave us alone to revert back to how it used to be.

Then again…I’m not going to hold my breath. We live in an age of make-money-out-of-anything. That means we have to accept that although things can be really lucrative for us, they can also be a total nightmare (not that we’ll forget that in a hurry).

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Why do I want to become a writer? I have never found a satisfactory answer to this question. I believe that I will never become a writer the day I answer this question properly. I can claim that my English is as good as some of the best writers in the business. After all, I would not have made such a bold presumption about my writing abilities had I not been confident about my command over the language.

With my skill English, I could have easily obtained one of the many teaching English jobs available in my country. With the internet making it easier to find students, I could have easily settled down for a comfortable and relaxed life. However, I never was attracted by the possibility of steady income from such a job. That is the reason why I work in a coffee shop and try to make ends meet. Of course, I am always searching for more time to write.

I have sent my work to countless magazines and publishers and having received praise on more than one occasions. Of course, the praises have never been accompanied by a contract but I know I have talent and am prepared to be patient. One thing is certain - I will either become a writer or shall die trying. This is one point that I am completely confident about.

I am not interested in getting married, having kids or enjoying life unless and until I become a writer. Call me crazy but I believe that this crazy devotion to the field is essential to become a successful writer.

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If you pay enough attention and are open enough, your characters just walk straight into your field of view. You can monitor the way they hold their coffee cup, the way they look suspiciously left and right while talking on their mobile phone, and countless other things which help you put them in your novel. With enough information and interaction, you get to create a character from scratch, and see them act out real life right before your eyes.

One of my favourite tricks is to strike up a conversation with them as they sit there. I watch how they react – the facial expression and how it changes, and the way they hand me the money for their drinks – and later on I use those notes in whatever I am doing. All of it is useful, and all of it enables me to write more realistic characters, or at least that is the delusion that I am under.

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It is my personal opinion, as a person who has spent great deal of time focusing on the banking sector and the legal regulations that govern the area, that probably the best job to have is a job in the banking sphere. But is that so? Several reasons are there all of which indicate the same thing - banking is the best.

Firstly, banking jobs offer you the opportunity to work on the large scale. This means that you would be able to work full time on projects which involve serious exhaustion of capital and finance. This motivates you to work, gives you the perception that you are doing some high priority job and secures your future interest. No deal is big enough and the passion to develop is always there in banking.

Secondly, I consider the bonuses bankers get the best contribution to someone’s salary. The opportunity that you have is to take advantage of every deal you make and work on commission added to your wage - this gives you an amazing chance to make money that you can spend in a month and worry no more about small things in the every day life such as paying the central heating oil suppliers. The best thing is that every such bonus comes on top of a good salary that you deliver you a good lifestyle and a dynamic job. The people you are going to work with will be mostly well educated young people and internationals which would also deliver you the best working environment you can get in the UK.

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I love writing. Obviously. Here I am, writing in my blog again, so I must like writing quite a lot. In fact, I’d like nothing more than to be able to give up my day job and spend my days in my pyjamas, listening to rock music and writing my next best selling novel or Hollywood screenplay. For now, however, I’m stuck behind my coffee bar, watching people sit in my coffee shop, writing.
A lot of people like to write in public, for reasons that I’ve never quite been able to figure out. JK Rowling herself wrote the first Harry Potter book in a café in Edinburgh, because the flat she was living in at the time had no heating. So at least she had a reason for getting out the notebook or laptop in public and scribbling down her inner thoughts and ideas.
Maybe all those people I see tapping away at their computer keys or scratching away on notepaper are hoping they will become the next JK Rowling – and are hoping that a coffee shop environment will give them the same kind of inspiration it gave her. I think it’s far more likely that they want an attractive member of the opposite sex to see them and think; “Wow. They must be a really interesting and sensitive person to be sitting in a coffee shop writing poetry/plays/prose”. It’s more likely they’re scribbling down their shopping list or revising the notes from their manual handling courses, but that pretty girl in the corner who keeps catching your eye doesn’t know that, eh?

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So, working in a coffee shop is great I suppose. I get to meet cool and interesting people everyday. there is a bohemian vibe here and every European in town comes to this here coffee shop for the fantastic Italian standard espresso that we serve. On the other hand, working such long hours means that I have little time for writing and seeing the inside of the same lousy coffee shop every day does nothing for creativity and imagination.
My options are, in the case, to either find a new job, live on the streets and be a real writing hobo or to pack my bags and fly off to Europe with the little saving that I have got and maybe hope to find a little bit of extra work out there while I write my first best selling novel. With my mediocre levels of French speaking though, I am unlikely to get a high paying job like selling horse insurance but I might just get to work in some cool Paris street cafe or in an international bookshop like Shakespeare and Co.
I could walk around all afternoon in a beautiful foreign city, watching lovers and visiting places that are featured in some of the world’s most famous stories ever and maybe meet a handsome and sophisticated European man who will walk with me hand in hand in the park and take me up to his fourth floor walk and read me poetry all afternoon. Hmm, I think the decision is made, its off to Europe for me.

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