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This author shares her opinion that if your writing life is "subsidized" by a partner who makes good money or a background that's afforded you plenty of writing time and freedom from financial worry, that it's a disservice to hopefuls to be coy about it.
It's a very interesting perspective. I know that my husband's job security has put me very much at ease in my work and more at ease with all the rejection that comes with it.
In my opinion, we do an enormous “let them eat cake” disservice to our community when we obfuscate the circumstances that help us write, publish and in some way succeed. I can’t claim the wealth of the first author (not even close); nor do I have the connections of the second. I don’t have their fame either. But I do have a huge advantage over the writer who is living paycheck to paycheck, or lonely and isolated, or dealing with a medical condition, or working a full-time job.
It's a very interesting perspective. I know that my husband's job security has put me very much at ease in my work and more at ease with all the rejection that comes with it.