RE: What if you were paid to write?
The biggest issue most face is writing style of work should have passive lifetime income being generated from it. Here it’s just 6 days 12 hours. While it is true after x amount of time your income coming in for older article would not be very high. You will have people who find you, love what you, and binge consume everything you have done in the past. The solution here to reward old works is to simply leave a comment saying if the author comments back you will upvote them. Sounds like a clever way but that not passive income, and most people don’t have a vote that will pass the 2 cent threshold let alone make it worthwhile for a busy author to want to engage with older constant. I sometimes do I sometimes don’t
When I do my standard full game review there cost of acquiring the game up to $59.99. Than the 40-60 hours of game play and getting screenshots for me to feel like I understand something enough to write a review on it and engage with anyone who has questions wants to know more. Than there the up to 5-10 hours of putting it all together into a review and learning anything I feel like I’m lacking in from further playing or getting other screenshots which could exceed how much time I plan to write something.
Now making something off a passion you have is just crazy and wonderful. So what ever I do get here is always great. It does make me wonder where else I could put my higher end stuff to try and get more out of it for my time and cost invested.
What I consider my higher end content I could only produce it every couple of weeks at best and I just don't at this time as I have other content and engagement to do as well. Which is why it does not happen as often as I would like. Would I love to have longer life out of my top end content? Yep, I would. I might even try and produce more of it if it became profitable and finically more than covered the hours invested into it.
Which leads me to the issue of lower quality and having to put more out. Quite a few people do almost a game review a day. There are ways to do that even more so not spend a lot at all if anything. While I would love to speed up my own process and get more content out. I for most part want to have a certain level of quality on my higher end stuff. As a result I just have my daily content that I still put way to many hours into and then my not so regular stuff.
So, if you found a paid gaming gig would you take it?
There are ethical and moral considerations to take into account. I have in the past had many paid gaming opportunities that I’ve created for myself. Some I have lived partially off of playing many games in the past. Some of them I’ve written about but not make it so apparent in how I was earning an income from them. Others I’ll only discuss in the vaguest of terms if ever.
Something I’ve never really address I have so in another comment today. Steemit is more of a step for me along a path that has many forks and options in it. A number of my blogs I would consider to be a portfolio of sorts that I’m building and growing to highlight examples of certain types of my work. Mix in with those types of things are just me more personally as a person as I explore different things and showcase I have an array of scope. It is part of my longer term strategy so I don’t tend to talk about those kinds of things very publicly.
There are a few paid gaming gigs out there that are also soul draining and will kill joy all the fun out of gaming. Many of my old opportunity are long gone and I'm hoping to build something here that I can take with me else where if needed be.