I don't post here anymore, if you want to keep track of me the best place is my twitter at
http://twitter.com/littletales I thought of this place last week while buying a refrigerator of all things. But to explain that I should rewind a few years.
Simply put, I make a living off of playing video games and writing these days. I've hired voice actors for animated storyboards, over the past several years I have raised over $70,000 singlehandedly for charity, and I am finally at a point where I feel like I'm contributing to the household.
Our fridge broke, and I replaced it with money I earned from gaming. I bought a Cintiq 22hd with gaming money. I bought our replacement dryer with it. I'm actually making a measurable income and contributing and if worse came to worse I could probably support myself tolerably well off of it all. I don't have a patreon and work entirely off of tips and commission for my writing and yet here I am.
This means a lot to me as former friends and family always told me I would never be able to do this. That there was nothing I could do that was worthwhile and I should just suck it up and get a real job and do real work. Tonight I played Kingdom Hearts for six hours and made more money than I did in a week working fulltime. I wrote a script for a comic and we'll probably finish the pages tonight.
The part that sucks is that I don't have weekends to myself anymore, but it's worth it.
I'm doing okay.