Crowdsourcing Mornings: How To Thrive As A Writer In A Capitalist Dystopia

By Nathan Young on April 29, 2025

Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!

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I’ve been working on this book for a long time, tinkering, testing, wrestling with every page, and I’m finally ready to share it with you. I’m launching a brand-new book designed to help writers build purposeful, profitable, and creatively fulfilling careers inside the chaos of a system that often treats artistic work like an afterthought.

Are the ills of capitalism dragging down your creativity?
Are you stuck between needing to exchange money for food and hating monetizing your creative output?
Do you scratch your head wondering how you could possibly exist and thrive in today’s world?

Then this book is for you.

How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia is your essential guide to navigating and succeeding as a creative human in the challenging world of modern capitalism. This book offers practical, actionable advice to help writers not just survive but thrive in these “interesting” times.

You’ll discover strategies to overcome the systemic challenges imposed by capitalism, learn the rules of the game and how to manipulate them to your advantage, and build a roadmap for a sustainable creative business that brings you joy even in a world tailor-made to steal every ounce of happiness from you.

Whether you’re struggling with burnout or seeking to elevate your writing career, How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia equips you with invaluable tools to navigate our current capitalist landscape, ensuring your success and fulfillment as a writer from today until this whole house of cards collapses down upon itself and we rebuild something (hopefully) better in its place.

This book is the culmination of two decades spent navigating the rollercoaster of making art and trying not to burn out doing it. It’s for every writer who’s ever wondered if it’s possible to do this work without selling their soul, sacrificing their voice, or getting swallowed by the algorithm.

Spoiler: it is. And this book shows you how. Not only does it show you how through my process, but I’ve also developed a workbook to help empower you to put the principles in this book into action.

As of April 29th, this project has raised $6,000 of their $1,000 goal. This project has 41 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get one eBook. For a pledge of $30, you will get one paperback. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russellnohelty/capitalism?

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