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Originally Posted by Stringer
Sounds like you don't believe even yourself to that ideologia. I certainly don't before proven otherwise. Oh it sounds nice and some of it even starts making sense (to all: run before it gets you too), but the part of paying mortages with donations is something that I won't be agreeing any time soon. That still leads to the assumption, that most of those who now make their living out of the writing, wouldn't be doing so in the utopia. Which would lead probably to the decrase in the overall quality.
Should and probably sometimes is, even on the traditional money making segment. But work cannot always be walking with flowers.
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I have a job, which I've stated several times before, I do not have a mortgage on the other hand, so that doesn't concern me. I have gone the route of traditional publishing, agent, ready to go to print and all the rest of that and it fell apart. And nowhere did I state that I expected payment, and certainly not enough to pay rent or even eat at McDonalds. You know what, I like walking with flowers, it's fun, it's not work.. if my writing was work, I would expect payment, I would punch a clock, I would say 'yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir' (well I might, I'd be more likely to throw a punch at anyone who tried to force me to say that to them). You seem to have an expectation, as unrealistic as my utopia, that writers now can pay their mortgages on what they earn in traditional publishing. Very few do, most live under the national minimum wage, earning paltry sums for their efforts. It's the anointed few who make the mega bucks, not the first timers or the midlisters.
So why would any writer want to join in that struggle, when they can get a steady job, write how they want, when they want, enjoy their writing, and maybe gain some readers along the way?