Hunter S. Thompson spent his early career running from creditors, trying to scrape together enough cash to find a decent place to hole up with his typewriter and finish his debut novel. That’s my take on “The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1).”
The guy was a starving artist, who somehow always managed to find a drink, and could have been way more productive had he not been continually looking for, then quickly losing, a day job.
Here was a guy who could have used Kickstarter.
For those unfamiliar: Kickstarter is a website that allows users to create campaigns and raise money to fund projects via crowdfunding — crowdfunding being the buzz word for the collective pooling of resources, usually money and usually done online.
This is a relatively new phenomenon, and while Kickstarter isn’t the only crowdfunding site, it’s the most recognized.