I’m a Full-Time Writer for 1 Month: a Win-Win Perspective

2 years obsessed with how to buy back my time

I was a regular worker, from 9 to 5, like billions of other human beings on our planet.

My soul was dying, consumed by the commonness of my place on earth. I felt I could do things differently, but found nothing that at least could pay my bills.

I felted trapped in my day-to-day routines. Couldn’t create more. Felt empty, cause I was in a job where everything was difficult to execute. It was always a storm in planning a new version of the company’s master plan.

So, things just stayed the same. Nobody wanted to confront the boss, cause it was always a fucking war. At a certain point, everybody avoids confrontations. Just let it be, we thought.

The only light at the end of the tunnel was finding ways to save money enough to live 2 years without any income. I would have 2 years to build my own business and start from scratch. That was my goal.

I wanted my time back. I wanted to feel the old me again. Or at least, find who I am today now. And project a new future ahead of myself.

Was it possible?

Could I reach that goal?

All Great Achievements Require Time

It couldn’t be everything wrong, you know what I mean?

I was dying on my job, but I was in one of the best industries to save money. I worked in the real estate business. So, for me to get two or three good deals, and save a bunch of money with discipline, was a strong probability.

And I did it. From 2018 to 2020, I saved enough money to end my nightmare in the company. I quit. Told my boss, in an honest way, I was completely unmotivated. And last month, November, I was free.

I went home, after the last meeting with my boss, and I felt like I haven’t felt in years.

A ton of shit got off my shoulders. I started laughing myself alone at home. Laughing with happiness. I was kept in captivity for 2 years and that day was the day they released me.

What a feeling!

From that moment, knew what I had to do. It was a responsible decision, but it involved a lot of work ahead. So, I went to my office and wrote on my whiteboard.

The masterplan was about to be created. I kept writing and writing, and writing. I wanted to sleep at the end of the day with the new design of my future finished.

The first day of November 2020 was the last day of my old life and the first day of a huge journey!

Mom, When I Get Old I Want to Be a Writer

My mother was a teacher. She always incentivized me to write. Writing short stories, poetry, enchanting stories. I hated it at first. I wanted to go play soccer with my friends.

With much patience and love, my mother gave me that thing. Something that stayed inside of me all these years, hibernating in the depths of my mind, waiting for someone to open the door of the den, for it to run wildly through the forest, observing the world in a way it had never done before.

I think my mom knew the importance of being a writer. She knew some professional writers and probably saw the depth of the world they lived in. The magical places they navigate. The profound reflections they did about the worlds and people.

She wanted me to have that. And I just wanted to play soccer.

Thank you, mom! I love you for your persistence.

Now I’m writing. I’m creating for those who want to read what I have to say. It’s kind of a libertarian weapon we have. What my mom gave me was a weapon of freedom. A time machine.

I can go with my writing whenever I want to. I can go to the Middle Age, to the Renascence. I can go to the future, have a conversation with Elon Musk in his latest days on planet Mars.

I never realized what I had inside of me. I never thought my mom was not annoying me. She was putting a Diamant seed inside my head.

This is not a responsibility. It’s a legacy.

I have two daughters, 14 and 11 years old. My older Alice loves to draw. My youngest Leonor loves to write.

Lucky me.

Deeds Will Not Be Less Valiant Because They Are Unpraised

Can you imagine those moments when J.R.R. Tolkien was for the first time creating the complex world of Lord of The Rings?

How powerful can a writer feel when he is building such a vast creation?

It is so difficult to write about our world. What about creating a new one?

The thing is that our mind is another universe. We can go wherever we want to go.

When you write an article, you don’t write just one article. You write hundreds of them. Thousands, if you have lots of fans. Cause each person reads it differently. They imagine your characters from a different perspective.

Your job is to create the frameworks and the points of interest so that your readers can connect with you. You write about the character. Characters are not people, as you know. They are the product of the way you see them.

If you are describing a story about your best friend, you are just giving your readers your point of view. But they are gonna connect the dots their way and construct a different best friend inside their heads.

That’s why when you write an article, you don’t write just one article. You write thousands of them.

That’s the beauty of being a creator, right? You just have to give readers enough to get them to the next point. So, you’re creating a little novel inside of an article. It’s always a story. And it’s gonna be imagined in thousands of different worlds. And that’s fine.

It’s actually the beauty of it.

If Writing Is Easy Your Doing It Wrong

You don’t write to entertain other people. You write because you have something to say. The art comes next. First, you have a message to transmit.

Writing is an activity that has a higher purpose. It’s part of the way we fulfill ourselves as human beings. Both in the words we write, as in the words we read.

You have to get a broader perspective about where you go find your ideas, how you get your tools of creation, what’s your best writing skills, but also what are your weaknesses.

By doing that introspective scan, you are free to fulfill your purpose as a writer and surprise your audience every time you set down and type another article.

Cause you always have this framework in your head. An endless puzzle, that is always evolving. You close one door, three other doors open. You just peek into one, because you know that the other two are open for a later entry. For now, join one, as you know it will give you more wool to bake new stories.

It’s an endless cycle.

And if you master it, you enter a never-ending story.

When Everyone Is a Contrarian Nobody Is a Contrarian

When you type on Google a certain word or words, the algorithm is gonna tell you the best ranking searches about the subject.

That’s the worst thing a writer can have.

If you want to talk about food, and you type food on Google, it will leave you with the more popular issues people talk about. But that is a dead end.

Why do you want to talk about what millions of people are talking about?

The thing with the algorithm is that it’s transforming humans into equal entities.

That’s not what writing is all about.

It’s precisely the opposite.

So, why don’t you start to go to a library? I know it seems weird. We all need devices like drug addicts. But all you need is to find what others are not talking about. The not trend.

If you went into a library, you’ll find a path to a new world. Different things will appear in your way. Things the algorithm is not injecting inside your veins.

New paradigms. Old stuff people never thought it exists.

If you write an article about something fresh, something people never heard about, or never found that specific perspective, you are opening their brains, and their attention.

You read Tim Denning’s articles and you say to yourself where the hell did he got that from? You are always surprised by his originality. The guy came with so many different stuff, funny ones, in-depth ones, weird ones. You name it.

That’s the best way for a writer to stand out.

Final Thoughts

The most powerful thing I learned in this first month was the smell of freedom.

It made me a happy man.

The second thing I learned as a full-time writer was that you have to be different, and that’s not a problem. Cause you’re unique. There is nobody else like you. So, you just have to talk about things you like.

For me, I love to write about technology disruption, self-development, and investment. I also like sometimes to write about running or global warming.

It’s a mountain of content I have to talk about.

If I go to the library searching for something about technology, I find another new thing, completely different, to write about.

It’s not just the smell of books that fascinate me when I go to the library. It’s also the possibilities we face when we went to those magic places.

Libraries are like open doors created by JK Rowling, from Harry Potter. You pick a book, any book, and you instantaneously open another magic door. It takes you to new worlds. You are automatically transported to infinity.

The third and last thing I learned about being a full-time writer, was that I have more time to be with my family and friends.

That has been the major factor that has been feeding my soul.

That was my conquer.

I bought back my time and rescued my soul.