I usually try to be a writer 1/4 clock time. I work in a business I partially own. I do well with both I think, but the business effort is compounded and currently pays 4 to 6 times as much as the writing and after a project still has an equity value, so there is no choice about which comes first. If the business requirement was such that there was no writing time, into the night, and weekends, and holidays, then that would be that. The writing would have to go.
However, if I could set a world, a culture, a character as quickly and as profoundly well as Jack Vance did, ...
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