As I've said in the other thread... money is not evil and there are actually quite a few authors who write full time, they do amount to only a small percentage of all authors but that's still a lot of people who produce a decent sized body of work... take their money away and the amount of work from any individual author will drop as they have to devote a considerable proportion of their time to earning a living... Money isn't the be all and end all for most of us but MONEY = TIME, time to do the things you want to do rather than the things you have to do...
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Originally Posted by Leyor
True, you do need to earn a living.
But it's not like we have many full time authors being able to live off the profession as it is.
So my premise is really this: Much more than lazyness and greed motivates us.
My secondary premise is: People who are paid well in another profession, still takes their free time to create great works for free because they are motivated and want to contribute.
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