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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, I agree - I've always been a little bemused by the idea that writing is somehow "special" and it's a little sordid to want to write simply to make money. I guess it goes back to the "you're obviously not a real artist unless you're starving in a cold damp attic" idea.
Look at the hack writers who've written purely to make money: Shakespeare, Dickens, etc...
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I completely agree.
It seems to me many people think that writers should give their work freely and forever with no thought of making money themselves.
More recently on the paid hacks: the great western genre writers.