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Originally Posted by leebase
Throughout history....nobody was making money writing stories....outside of kings and queens sponsoring you.
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While there have been a lot of examples of this and some time periods where it was usually the case, there have been lots of examples of writers who wrote for the love of it. Plato, for example, and most of the Greek writers. And most of the Roman writers. And many of the British writers. Copyright didn't begin in England till 1710. Shakespeare and Chaucer and Christopher Marlowe and Milton, for example.
Of course if writers today only wrote for the love of it we'd have a lot fewer writers. Writers such as James Patterson and Danielle Steel would find another line of work. OMIGOD!!!
Barry