How a Teenage Student Made Thousands of $$$ Writing backstories on his Free Time [ CNBC ]

 

How a Teenage Student Made Thousands of $$$  Writing backstories on his Free Time [ CNBC ]. Arash Lahijani was a high school senior when he learned he could make money writing backstories for video game characters.

A friend of his had paid a Fiverr freelancer $70 to do it for a Grand Theft Auto character, he recalls — so he started researching, and realized there was a market. Even better, it was something he could do as a side hustle after school and during weekends.

A week later, in April 2021, he set himself up on Fiverr (Fiverr.com is a global online marketplace for freelance services. Fiverr’s platform connects freelancers to people or businesses looking to hire).
Since then, he’s earned $62,400 writing more than 400 character backstories for an online version of the video game Grand Theft Auto, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

In just his second full month on the platform, he made $9,700. “I never knew that writing could make me $10,000 in a month,” Lahijani, now a 19-year-old sophomore at New York’s Baruch College, tells CNBC Make It.

Unlike professionals who develop characters and plotlines for video game studios, Lahijani specifically writes for users who play Grand Theft Auto 5 Roleplay, a multiplayer computer version of the popular console game. In this iteration of the game, players have to submit character backstories to join specific servers and play with certain users.

Lahijani, whose clients range from “50-year-old dads to 15-year-old kids,” doesn’t make that kind of cash year-round. His extra income is reliant on how many hours he works, and as a full-time student, he can only commit three to four hours per day during the school year: In September, he only made $1,750.

Here’s how Lahijani learned how to write video game character backstories and how he plans to grow his income through writing:

How to write a video game backstory

Lahijani says his writing skills aren’t from English classes or extracurricular interests. At Baruch College, where he has a full academic scholarship, Lahijani is studying statistics and quantitative modeling.

Rather, he says his knack for storytelling comes from writing and listening to speeches. In high school, he was a grade president, the school treasurer and the founder of the computer science club. He also worked with the Nassau County district attorney’s office, as part of a county initiative for school safety.

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