My Writing Career
Jerrico Usher,
The Writer
I started my writing career many years ago as a hobby. I have always loved to write things down that were in my head because I discovered at an early age that this allowed me to actually quantify the many streams of thoughts going through my head. I think in so many dimensions at once that if someone were to actually be able to read my thoughts they’d be lost in what the hell they were looking at. It’s like I see every angle of something at once and I have to figure out which one is the most valuable to go with. I really can’t explain it better than that but at some point I started writing things down from one of the vantage points in my head that confused me and I found I could see things more clearly.
I’d always wanted to write a journal but found that this just isn’t something I’m motivated to do, but when I have a problem I can’t figure out or my life spins out of control, writing down randomly what I’m thinking tends to work for me. When I write something down then go back and read it a funny thing happens. I see it as if I didn’t write it, as if it was somehow channeled through my fingers and I too am reading it for the first time.
For years I tried writing books and even have 5 books I started that eventually I’ve figured out how to consolidate into one incredible story. I have yet to write what I see in my head but when the idea came to me I wrote it down, a 23 page synopsis of the entire “script” using a pen and paper (the old fashioned way). I hope to one day finish writing it. I never wrote for money, I never knew how to get into that kind of thing but something incredible happened to me a little more than a year ago (November 2007).
I was at a cross roads looking for work and found myself online looking desperately for something I’d like doing. I heard about people making money online but never really tried to find anything. I was bored and started looking on Craig’s list and saw this section in the jobs section for “getting paid to write”. I thought this would be fun. I didn’t find anything conclusive but I did land on a page with a link to a site called HubPages, and this started the turning points that lead me to where I am today. I really enjoyed writing articles on HubPages. I wrote with the aspiration to make money with AdSense but it never really happened. I found that writing on this site was a great way to put my ideas onto digital paper and I accumulated about 460+ fans over the year I wrote on there. I spent more than 8 hours a day writing “hubs” and these hubs turned out to be “self help” hubs in all areas of psychology, HubPages writing and more. I found I had a real knack for writing and throughout my journey I learned to write more professionally. My first couple of hubs were interesting but unfocused and well to put it bluntly, I was babbling a lot. Over a year I interacted in the forum and through a lot of battles with other writer’s egos I discovered the writer in me and learned to write better. To this day I have 137 hubs and they do earn me about 100.00 every two months (I get a Google AdSense check in the mail for 100.00 every two months or so, which is not bad considering I’m not doing a dam thing to earn it!). This journey also connected me with a lot of information about making money online and I discovered that HubPages was like a seed planting journey as I was actually contacted by people wanting me to write articles for them for pay and this began my excitement with writing for money. Now Let's get into my last year's Resume' of a sort
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