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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Not quite understanding what you are saying here.
Are you saying money doesn't count and that you work for free and are happy to do so? Kind of sounds that way.
Or perhaps you are hoping that authors come to their senses and get paid by the hour jobs and quit annoying society with their books and their grandiose desires to get paid by those enjoying them. Pernicious devils aren't they?
Pretty sure it is the second, but maybe not.
Helen
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The second, although i wouldn't phrase it the way you do.
I hear both you and Hitch how poorly paid writing is, on average. I agree. It's basically buying a lottery ticket with a lot of hard labor.
If that is what a person wants to do with their time, that's their business. But I'm rather fed up with the expectation that all that labor <entitles> an author to special priviledges, that no one else in God's green Earth gets.And onward unto the Nth generation's descendants. And to make it even more annoying, I get their justification of how <hard> they worked. They <deserve> these extra priviledges, because writing does't get paid enough.
Nonsense.
If you want money, do what pays well. It may require lots of work, or little work. Writing is not one of the occupations that pays well, on average. Accept that and choose, high probability of money or low probability of money.
And live with the decision!
The world doesn't owe
anybody a living, and certainly not somebody wanting to do something that doesn't pay well.
(I've just come off of a month of 60+ hours weeks at a nice rate. On the other hand, I've made 10's of thousands of dollars on various occasions by merely saying "Buy" and then "Sell" a few months later, and doing nothing but twiddling my toes between times. Life varies <shrug>.)