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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Exactly! If you write just for the money, you're in the wrong field. But if you write because you love to, and it's a passion, then you're in the right field. My thought is this. If you're doing something, regardless of what it is, and you love doing it, and would do it the rest of your life even if you never got paid a single dime for your work, then you're doing the right thing.
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Such as it is with my writing, about which I am passionate enough to have devoted my life (well, since I was 12).
However, I do also need to eat. And I do think that I deserve to be paid for my work just as everyone else is, and not to apologize for preferring not to live in poverty (not that anyone has suggested I should, but I feel an implication in the conversation as a whole). So I don't have any embarrassment about my concerns for finding the right balance when it comes to finding the best approach for getting paid for what of mine is being read, whatever it might turn out to be... If I'm uncertain about DRM issues, it's with good reason: my personal stakes are pretty large.
I hope to continue learning here, so I can be wiser about it all.