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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
At the moment, my best weapons are "patience" and "quality." But at times, I just want to retreat for a while and get a breather from constant battling. I'm there now.
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There is no point in human history where artists and writers have not felt that way for one reason or another haha. The reasons are just different now. I'm sure classical musicians hated having to compose for rich people in order to succeed enough to live off their work. Now no matter what your style is, if there's an audience to reach you can reach it with analytics and targeted advertising. It's not easy and let's be honest, almost nobody is making it work without traditional methods of support (which is why the Louis CK models, etc. are great stories but don't matter for most of us), but the potential is there.
If it makes you feel better creatives aren't the only ones tired of the everything free model. What's happening to journalism (longform most notably) is just as tough. Maybe worse. People wouldn't pay to support real journalism and investigating, and it's dying now, then people wonder why their internet is a bunch of huffington post content farm tripe.