Is any of you a content creator?

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Cousin Brucie is supposed to be the "anti-DJ" DJ.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Peel
Frankly I liked less and less of the music he chose as time went by, but right until his death there was still something for me in almost every show. I think his taste in music just moved with the times more readily than mine.

I should write a blog online because I do enjoy writing about myself and I seem to have such a lot to say.

I wrote a book and I am also a content creator

Wrote a book?
Wow!
Was it published?

I haven't published it. I wanted to. I even had Dr. Tony Attwood review the manuscript for me. He and I are friends. He loved it and told me to use his words as a review and he sent me the information to his publisher. But I can't publish it because I could risk losing my disability benefits if it sells well even for just nine months. And it doesn't have to be a consecutive nine months. If I manage to make a certain amount of money per month for any nine months in my life, even not consecutive, I lose my disability benefits and I might not ever be able to get them back. It took me six years of fighting in order to get them and I had a great lawyer so I can't risk losing them. But the people who have read my manuscript, parents of Autistic people that are friends of mine, have loved it and have found it incredibly helpful in understanding their children. I have also had a couple of my Autistic friends read it as well and they were able to really relate to it. Unfortunately I can't keep sharing it for free so I haven't done anything with it. I am too concerned that publishing it could destroy me because of the risk of losing my benefits which are my sole source of income. And I can't get paid for the advocacy work that I do because no one is willing to pay me. And I can't write enough to make a living off of it. So I had to just put it away in a file drawer.

That's so ridiculous! ^

Could you sell under someone else's name (a family member), and they get the money?
Sell it for charity somehow?
That's so sad.

I published prior to being on benefits, and I've written a book since but didn't even think about that.

The rest of my content is unpaid.

I actually have a pseudonym that I wrote it under. I couldn't publish under another person because I don't have anyone that I can trust to not steal my money. I am trying to find out from Social Security if I could have money from a book or something put into my able account. With the able account any of my money in the account that is left after I die would go to the state. I don't know how I feel about that but I guess I won't care once I am dead. The problem is that getting any accurate information from Social Security is always a gamble. So you have to be very careful.

Are any of your works accessible to the public? I would love to support you and read what you have written.

I would like to read anything anybody writes on WP.

So, you fear that the money would ruin you, but won't just assign it to a charity, leaving you no worse off, except for interview requests? Those can come with non-monetary perks. Ever since my pension kicked in, I've just been trying to give away the stuff I was saving for a Patent lawyer, since I don't need more.

I say a lot of meaningless stuff on Twitter, does that count?

Mostly, I help others be content creators.

My biggest dream is to get my stories published but because they're handwritten it's impossible to get published unless it's typed up on a silly computer.

I'm a perfectionist when it comes to writing so I don't need a computer to spell check my work, and mistakes get corrected when I proofread my work. Also I've got to change everybody's names in the book because every character is an existing person in my life, as my stories are a series of biographies (or autobiographies?)

I have tried copying them on the computer myself but it's nowhere near as fun and engaging as actually writing them firsthand. My short attention span makes it difficult to memorize a paragraph at a time so I have to keep checking where I am and it becomes so repetitive and slow going that I just give up.

There's a good talent going to waste (my good spelling and grammatical skills and neat handwriting and excellent memory of my past and ability to put the little notes I wrote in old diaries into 400+ page stories).

Why don't you create a blog, Joe, based on what you wrote. You can take your time typing it, then.

Charles Dickens used to publish his stories in bits and pieces in newspapers.

The first typed manuscript was "Huckleberry Finn" which probably required Mark Twain to transcribe at least the first section before the riverboat collision. He was worried that the rural ambiance needed a more formal presentation, and he was also heavily investing in a typewriter company.
I usually have to read a sentence in parts to transcribe it, and don't know of anyone who does a full paragraph. You can do the drudgery in between creative days, but it is just as essential.

JEEZUS! Thats a catch-22.

Most books do not become best-sellers including autism books. But an autism book with a forward by Tony Attwood might well sell a lot.

There has gotta be a way around this.

My dog has a youtube channel, demonstrating his training. It's silly, but it has been interesting to see how his training has progressed over the years.