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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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I guess it’s as good a purpose as any
Still I can’t help but to feel sad about this. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I get it, books are a product just like anything else and the people writing them depend on their sale for their livelihood, but there’s something profoundly sad about writing being just a job like any other.