The Baum Plan For Financial Independence

What plan do I have for myself as a writer? What plan can I have? I see Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie selling "masterclass" courses on the internet. Everything sells at the right price, and the sooner we learn it, easier the life becomes for us. I write to document my reality, and I write because I want to create beauty, or if not that, at least truth. The past decade has been a roller coaster ride. It's been hell, and quite literally and I have persisted. I have been able to realise that if you are materialistic and selfish, it's money, and if you are not, it's love and truth. Money is essential in the second case too, it's just not in the form of greed, and that's how you know that Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie know the ultimate truth. The business of telling the truth is risky, but art that doesn't tell the truth is not art, it's propaganda. We got a lot of it in today's times. Propaganda too is of two types, one that is just intended to delude and another that is intended delude and harm. Isn't it funny that the individuals that run this country are peddling propaganda of the second kind? And these individuals do not belong to any political party, they are constant no matter what political party is in power, and they are doing what they are doing to make themselves more constant than they are, and they are doing so by taking away a respectable narrative from people and also their dignity. What does it matter though, it's a democracy on the paper. The whole game is of numbers, if people are in billions then you can get away with sporadic genocides especially when they are covert. For the common man, it's about food, clothing and shelter, and these three things require money. When there is enough of it, one needs more for security, and the need for security never goes away. I would hopefully finish the novels in my head, but in the meantime I'll keep writing. The first novel was an adventure novel, where a bassist of a rock band meets a group of people who are collecting ancient relics all over the world and are in a race with a corporation. This was the premise of my first novel, which I realised that it's also loosely the premise of the game Assasin's Creed and I didn't know that the story that was brewing in my head since years had been already done. It's anyway about how you tell the story though. And the only thing that has been preventing me from completely dedicating myself to writing my novels is that I want to tell the stories in my head in the best way possible. Unfortunately before I could do that I got acquainted with the bigger picture, realising that it is worthless and no matter how good you write as you would end up selling internet courses, or worst, deluding NPCs who would be then gaslighted with the very thing you wrote to entertain and maybe help them. How is it to be ostracised by one's community? And how is it when that ostracization is done by a bunch of rapists? The biggest fun is being ostracised for nothing in particular, no sin for that matter. I wouldn't know that though, my community is strong and it ostracises for sins, though they are NPCs and there is nothing to be expected from them. When writing starts feeling like a sin, one must know that it's the path of truth and he must also realise that it leads to hell. The age of metaphors has passed though I would have preferred metaphors to what I do now. I prefer however to keep it a mix of bluntness and metaphor. I don't know about other artists, but the age of writers has ended and it is not going to come back. My goal is producing beauty and truth, and if I, due to my suffering, am unable to produce beauty then I would produce truth. This, is the plan I have for myself as a writer.