Quote:
Originally Posted by meeera
I wouldn't suggest that authors who have a book or two under their belts give up their day jobs either, not unless the books have been ridiculously runaway successes and they have plenty of others in the pipeline. Are these figures really any surprise to anyone? I don't personally know any writers who write full-time hours - they're all fitting it around their day jobs. You don't go into fiction writing expecting a consistent full-time wage to drop into your lap, any more than you go into acting or music or inventing expecting the same.
|
And most people who make a living from writing are not writing fiction; they're working in journalism, advertising copy-writing, etc. Writing is a broad church; it's a mistake to think (and I'm not suggesting that you do!) that the only way to be a professional writer is to write fiction.