This is a negative comment. The author is someone who is clearly struggling, and trying to do her best to make ends meet by working multiple jobs that she makes clear she is desperately in search of. She also can't use her hands and is in chronic pain. Please, have some empathy.
I have empathy but it's tempered by realism. Very few people make a sustaining income from writing, almost all of them supplement some other source of income or subsist.
Editing and proofing may be a better deal. My partner did this for over 25 years and rarely exceeded the taxable income threshold.
The perhaps unsatisfactory answer is you land a day job with a company that has a significant writing component, e.g. various content marketing roles but other types of marketing as well or analyst work. It's not the "great American novel" but I was, to a large degree, essentially a professional writer for over 20 years. And latterly I definitely worked with a lot of people who would probably have preferred to be independent writers but found pleasure in having a fairly well-paid career with a company.
I do know some successful freelancers but they're the generally fairly well-known exception (and are presumably still not making the kind of money many on this board would consider great).
Grant writing. I've done that for years. It's using your writing and analysis skills. Again, not the next great novel, but it does afford you the opportunity and income to write in your spare time, while doing a job that isn't too demanding.
I have the same thing as her and I built an off-grid homestead with my stupid useless arms, and I type until they’re so numb it’s like watching a hen peck for feed.
It never even occurred to me to make it a core part of my identity - it’s just pain and numbness, and they aren’t about to drop off and catch fire, even if it feels like it sometimes.
I used to read Quartz everyday. As a gen z digital native, Quartz was my first foray into reading journalism daily. It's clean interface, direct and high-quality writing style, and lack of clickbait appealed a lot to me.
These days, I read print newspapers everyday. But I still find myself wishing Quartz existed. I have not found any suitable replacement for it, and I am on the lookout for the same.
Interview Coder is an AI tool for technical interviews. Basically to help you crack Leetcode Interviews. It's also a vibe-coded mess. A friend of mine was able to exploit it's payments system using a python script to get himself free unlimited usage of the app which otherwise costs $117/yr.
So fandom.com has a lot of great content on it. Unfortunately, that content is obscured with a ton of unnecessary garbage like promotion and ads that takes up more of the page than the actual content. This is a list of uBlock Origin filters that I personally use to make fandom.com readable. In my personal experience, this actually makes fandom a joy to use :)
My goal was to remove anything that's moving, and anything that's unrelated to the wiki. What you get is a simple, static webpage. Exactly what I wanted.
it sucks btw. I tried scheduling an event in google calendar through gemini, and it got the date wrong, the time wrong, and the timezone wrong. it set an event that's supposed to be tomorrow to next year.
