follow-up<\/a> to his request for advance amounts.<\/p>\nIn lieu of actual writing, I like to distract myself with investigation into the business of writing. The above is the closest I think I am going to get to seeing an advance for fantasy in a few years.<\/p>\n
To characterize the poor pay one makes as a writer as the reason I keep my day job is a little over the top, but the disproportionate ratio of pay to effort increases my respect for those that choose to make a living this way.<\/p>\n
I think that most of us unpublished authors still nurse the idea that we are birthing a work of art and that our child will soon be discovered as the next big thing. The reality appears to be that it is hard to become an author, harder to make a living that way, and barely affordable once one gets there.<\/p>\n
Those that make a living this way have clearly been able to pass over a threshold and are able to both create and produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not the only reason, but certainly one that puts my writing in perspective. Tobias S. Buckell blogged a great follow-up to his request for advance amounts. In lieu of actual writing, I like to distract myself with investigation into the business of writing. The above is the closest I think I am going to get … <\/p>\n
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