Introduction:
I am simply a talented Ghanaian writer with atypical writing skills. Yours truly is really hustling as a 19 year old start-up writing entrepreneur. You can tell I mean real business with the art of writing, because you have not heard of any other teenager claiming to be a writing entrepreneur. Yes, our Ghanaian society, directly and indirectly, tries to kill my ambitious spirit as an extremely passionate writer.
So I need to share my desperate plight, which actually represents the totality of sickening challenges most of my colleagues encounter. In fact, I am filled with outrage as I am about fully express my harboured emotion in black and white. And I strongly believe that my practical assertions will prove cynics wrong, convict enemies of progress, and convince investors to assist.
(1) Undermining promising Ghanaian writers:
Gosh, I feel really insulted when someone advises me to practise writing as a secondary profession and practise accounting, which I studied in school, as my major occupation. Some folks are quite sceptical of my constant declaration that I would amass wealth with writing in Ghana.
Also, people actually regard promising Ghanaian writers as the downtrodden. No wonder many people scorn me for treating my writing potential more important than my schooling. And strangely enough, most people do not bother to read the writings of promising Ghanaian writers.
(2) No financial support for promising Ghanaian writers:
I have written my first motivational book at age 19; almost all bestselling authors in the world never got the opportunity to do what I have done at my age. That is absolutely impressive. Unfortunately, I have been deliberately denied of sponsorship from businesspeople and organisations in Ghana. One CEO of a media group told me on phone that his company does not sponsor book projects.
Well, I am not one of those wannabe writers who write as a hobby and lack true passion for writing. I am a writing entrepreneur whose start-up writing firm seeks to establish a writing empire in the world. I dare any visionary investor to invest $250K in Sircle Communications, and I will turn it into a multimillion dollar company in 10 years.
(3) The ignorance factor:
I find it so laughable when people ask me if I can really be filthy rich as a so-called writing entrepreneur in Ghana. I know it is seemingly impossible for a Ghanaian to make huge fortune as a writer. Even the majority of promising Ghanaian writers share in the same pessimism.
Hey, do you know that J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Porter series, is the richest author on earth worth about $1billion? Ha-ha, most literate folks in Ghana are simply ignorant of how the business of writing works in the writing fraternity. That is why they belittle the writing profession, especially in Ghana.
(4) The cynicism of other promising Ghanaian writers:
I have realised that some other promising Ghanaian writers dislike my personality as a writer. Why? I am a maverick and they are conformists, though we are all writers. So they try to distance themselves from me or do not publicly appreciate my works as learned colleague. They find my style of writing really repulsive due to its perceived self-aggrandising nature.
Indeed, I know some of them detest my kind of spirit since I always emphasise on my rare strengths which they lack; example, having published about 300 articles in less than 3 years and still at age 19. But why should they be cynical about my orientation or path in writing just because I do not think and act like the average writer?