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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Exactly. I've been fighting a losing battle, so I give up. I'm a loser. On the other hand, I was raised to be able to recognize a fruitless cause.
Considering my current losses have been in the negative hundreds each year (not counting the value of my time spent actually writing... we'll put that at a few thousand), moving my results to $0.00 would be an improvement.
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Let me summarize my small story. There was a time I devoted everything to a writing career. I did this full time for several years. The goal was to write and publish fiction and be able to survive at a subsistence level. The money I actually made was in the non-fiction area writing science and technology pieces for a variety of magazines and school programs. In the end I could keep it up. I spent what little retirement savings I had at the time (cashing in a small 401K and paying the penalty). At that the end I had to return to the corporate computer world to put dog food in the bowl and vowed that from here on out I'd only write what I wanted, when I wanted and publish/sell it as possible.
It freed me to write my poetry which I enjoy tremendously. I'm now at a place in my life where I'm potentially looking at getting back in the writing game and lessen my corporate work. I have no idea if it is possible at this point, but I'm going to give it a try. There are many possibilities on the new publishing horizon for ebooks and self-publication and the landscape it changing and will continue to change. I hope to be a part of it.