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Originally Posted by Phogg
Honest skill assessment helps.
To make a living at anything from selling watermelons to mining ore to repairing equipment to writing... quality and quantity have to be combined.
Editors and proofreaders can help some with quality, but an author who can't crank out several books per year is unlikely to be able to give up their day job. A lot of my favorite authors have been people who not only told a good yarn, they cranked out six or more every year. Walter Gibson's output (not a perfect example, as he was inherantly wealthy) was just scary.
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I agree, if an author wants to make a decent living just from writing, they have to be able to put out several books each year. There is too much else out there to read rather than waiting for a year or two to read the next book in a series.
We are no longer held hostage by the publishers waiting for the next release of a favorite author. We simply move on to someone else, and hope we still remember that author when they finally make the next release.