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The Brief Life of an Aspiring Twitch Streamer

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Source: Twitch.tv Twitch is not for me. Not now, at least. Two months may've been too soon to hang my account, place it on the back burner, what have you, but I saw what it took to keep streaming. I learnt what it takes to live off streaming; the latter of which is personally the crux of my abandonment. To preface all this, streaming is arguably a career that consequently popped up as technology gets better. I believe it is. However, what isn't said enough is what a new streamer has to do to get a modicum of success if that is his or her aim. I started with a sum of money and a month's worth of research on how to get started. When I had everything set up, I had a mid-range computer, a decent microphone, and a webcam I scrounged off my sister. That was enough to set me for the short-lived one man show. Going live four hours a night from seven to eleven o'clock, Monday to Friday, I showcased single-player games that were heavily story driven. My main idea

Novel Update #07

I am terribly behind updating my blog. To whoever is reading, I'm so sorry. A lot of things have been happening in my life, none of them related to writing. Thank you for putting up with me, to whoever is still reading this. If no one is reading, then I'm just going to write as how I've always done. I finally finished the draft of Chapter Seven a couple of weeks ago. I'm not happy with it, but I'm not going to go through a grueling process of writing it from scratch. All it takes are a little tweaks here and there. This means a big deal for me because now I am finally passing the one-third mark of my novel and moving into the second act. As I write Chapter Eight now, everything just seems to make sense. I'm happy with the direction that the story is developing and now I'm taking a day off to thoroughly imagine how the rest of the chapter will go. There's a balance between stuffing and trimming that I tread upon and its a delicate process to me. Howev