19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money
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19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money
Since its release seven years ago, Minecraft has become a global sensation, captivating a generation of children. There are over 100 million registered players, and it’s now the third-best-selling video game in history, after Tetris and Wii Sports. In 2014, Microsoft bought Minecraft — and Mojang, the Swedish game studio behind it — for $2.5 billi... See more
Clive Thompson • The Minecraft Generation (Published 2016)
It didn’t take me long to realize that readers didn’t just want to learn how to be better gamers themselves. They also wanted to be entertained.
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
We are living in an age where sometimes the best path to making a living “doing what you love” is finding creative ways to monetize not necessarily the craft itself, but all the things that surround the craft: how you write, where you write, who you write with and learn from, your knowledge about writing, etc. You might discover you can make far mo
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