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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Or that the various national Authors' groups are particularly representative of the profession.
A lot of the writers making good livings off writing (even fiction) do it outside the bounds of traditional publishing. Staff writers on TV shows, for example. Few are known to the general public but their numbers far exceed the membership of groups like AG or AU or whatever.