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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Although I'd like to note on the Galleycat article -- I could live on 2k a month. I haven't gotten there with my writing yet, but I've definitely seen the fluctuation with the earnings. It goes up and down month by month. Planning is impossible for the most part.
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That is why many don't quit the day job even when making (relatively) good money: uncertainty over sales. Unless you have your "thousand true fans" and are prolific enough to have multiple new releases each year there will be peaks and valleys. And being that productive mean full-time writing.
Something of a chicken and egg quandary, no?