Why I Want To Be Rich Essay

Okay, so you want to be a writer? One thing you have to decide is if you ever want to be rich, because if you do, stop reading right now. Money will be in limited supply, roughly enough to keep you writing and alive. Procrastination is bound to strike you, the novel will sound so great in your head that your fingers and limitations won’t want to spoil the bountiful extravagance of your ideas. Soak up every little thing that you see or hear, wring out your sponge brain on the page and craft the plot at your heart’s desire. Write about life, and how it isn’t turning out like you thought it would. Scribe down your fears. Read influential writers who are better than you will ever be, be taken away just like you want you to take your readers away. Think about …show more content…
Think about your character in the shower, think about how much shampoo he or she would use, what they smell like, how long their hair is. Go to parties and talk to the biggest characters, be inspired by the drunken monologues of burnouts and freaks of the world that can’t be stuffed into society’s box. Just like you, you are a renegade, different from the rest of the sycophant swine that surround you. You are a rebel, you are not sucking up to anyone, you are writing from the soul and not from the wallet. Read “The Raven” and decide that you sympathize with the bird and not the speaker, why doesn’t he leave the poor bird alone? Stay up all night and write whatever comes to mind in that brain that has been attacked by caffeine and ears that have been serenaded by loud double bass drums of death metal. You are all alone and with everything and everyone you have ever known all at once when you write. You are the judge, jury and executioner. For better or worse, you are the only person that can write your stories. Start a book club and have a crush on one of the members who is