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Originally Posted by DNSB
According to one SF author I met a a convention decades back, the purpose in his writing was keeping food on the table and clothes on his back.
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Yep.
I used to put authors (not the individuals themselves, but the collective) on a pedestal (or peddle-stool for those paying close attention) when I was young. But then the internet helped me learn that they're just people plying a trade like any others. Some are able to move me more than others, but that's not because they've been bestowed with some sort of mystical gift from god that needs to be poured out of their soul onto paper (or eink). They just stumbled onto a formula that works for me, and some others (for a little while). I eventually tire of all authors who put too much work out there.