This is a YouTube video titled "Making Money Exclusively Selling Books is Unnecessarily Hard" containing a monologue or talk from September 25, 2024. The speaker reflects on the challenges and misconceptions about being a successful author, discussing personal experiences with defining success beyond traditional literary accolades and emphasizing financial freedom.
Making money exclusively as an author is unnecessarily hard. I'm using the word unnecessarily on purpose. I find that a lot of writers really romanticize what it means to be successful, and they think that you're only a real writer if you are earning money exclusively from selling books. And that just doesn't make any sense. And I know how challenging this is because I have struggled with this for years. This was my definition of success for. For a long time. And in many ways, just to be fully transparent, I still feel that feeling of I see some other writer win the Pulitzer Prize, and they have all these legacy badges and all of these things that say, that's what it means to be a successful writer. And I have moments where I go, I must not be a real writer. I don't have any of those things. But then I remember how much freedom I have, and then I remember that I make 10 times more money than that writer. And so it depends on how you want to define success.
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