[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Fat Abe

Do full-time writers really make as little as $17,500, according to:

https://www.authorsguild.org/wp-cont...al-updated.pdf

This is shocking but Google cannot be attributed as the cause of the decline in earnings.

I don't see it as "shocking" at all. It shows that the people in question aren't writing the type of books that people want to buy. If you want to be a full-time writer, you'd be much better advised to go into journalism, advertising copy-writing, TV script-writing, or any one of a dozen other branches of the profession, any one of which is likely to pay better than writing fiction.