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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Work. Now there's an interesting concept. As a programmer I don't consider programming work-to me it's fun. Yes, I want to get paid for it-but I don't insist that I need to get paid for all that I do. As long as I make enough to decently live on (an amount that varies not only from person to person but also, with me, from time to time) I'm fine. I guess authors are different-or maybe they're as different from each other as everybody else is?
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Calvin:
And how do
you know that all these authors are "making enough to decently live on?" I think that's the entire point that they are trying to make. They're not all Dan Brown or Rowling, y'know. Being listed for the Booker doesn't mean he's independently wealthy. I think people here have a
bizarrely distorted idea of what the average--and I mean, average--author
really earns.
And, by the way: lucky you, that you manage to earn doing something that you think is fun, and don't consider "work." You do realize that most people aren't in that situation, don't you? Very few people are so fortunate.
Hitch