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Originally Posted by tompe
What? I have not said anything like this. I have said that if yout goal is only to make money it is not rational to try to be a fiction author.
People do a lot of thing without being paid for it. So I really do not see your point. Do you want to call everything somebody do for working and demand that they shouyld get paid?
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There's nothing wrong with writing as a hobby and with the internet there's even some simple methods of sharing that work with an audience.
When you make any purchase it really comes down to the fact that you're paying for time. Writers have to eat, too....and it's in the readers' interest for a writer to have the time to write as much as we can read.
Hal Clement, for example, wrote a dozen books in a 50+ year writing career....how many more would he have written if he hadn't needed to work as a science teacher? (Although he considered writing his hobby....he may not have been interested in doing it as a full time job.) Ideally, as a reader, I'd like to see the authors I enjoy have the freedom to write more good books for me to enjoy, but maybe not enough to become complacent (Piers Anthony comes to mind...). Income from writing provides that freedom.