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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
I feel differently about my novels. If I want to make money writing, there are better ways to do it than by writing fiction.
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You remind me of Charles Stross, in the introduction to his short story collection,
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Actually, I'm not sure I know anyone who writes fiction at any length solely for money. If you've got the skill to string words into sentences, there are any number of ways to earn a living, most of which are far less precarious than the life of a freelance fiction writer. At the risk of overgeneralizing, it's one of those occupations you go into because you can't not do it, and any attempts to justify it by pointing to commercial success are, at best, special pleading. If Stephen King had failed to get his big break with Carrie, if J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book had sold out its first thousand-copy print run and thereafter gone out of print, I'm willing to bet that they'd have kept on writing regardless.
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(Emphasis added.)
(Although
some people
do think that unless you make a ton of money with your fiction, its a waste of time...)