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Yeah, I sure as hell don't expect to get anything close to rich off it, but if I have the feeling for too long that I'm writing for no one, I think I'd put it down.
Emily Dickenson made diddly-squat from her poetry. She had one volume published and it had a limited print, I believe. And yet she gave us some very great poems! So she's and example of someone who essentially wrote for nothing. Did that work for her? Maybe; maybe not. But it sure did for us readers ! So don't be down if your not making loot. You are in good company !
yeah, i would. money's nice, but it's not worth shutting down creatively over it.
I do do it for nothing. Have done so for a very long time. Just ask my readers.
. . . ohhhhh . . . . . wait . . . . . . . . . there's a problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
If so, for how long? Forever? How 'bout for next to nothing?
Do you love it so much that you think you'll do it no matter what?
I enjoy it, at times I do love it. When it's really working and I read back what I've written and...but let's face it, it's a lot of work. Plus, many of us have to do something else. It's an avocation we'd hope to turn into a job, or as I heard E.L. Doctorow say (posthumously) on Charlie Rose the other night, "It's a calling."
Maze Runner said:Please know that I'm not trying to discourage anyone, and I'm not saying I'm ready to quit (I'm a relative babe in this pursuit) but we're all grownups here. I think it's healthy to know where your bottom is, if only to have something to spring up off of.
Welcome to AW. It's a big but worthwhile place.