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While making money by writing is now harder than ever before, it's actually not that impossible. You don't have to get on the bestseller lists.
Let's say your book sells paperback only, for $6, you get $0.60 per sale. If you sell only 20,000 copies -- a modest amount -- you'll earn $12,000. Write two books a year, and you get $24,000. Okay, that's not a lot... but you can live off that in many areas of the country.
And that's just in the first year. Next year you'll have 2 more books out, and your first 2 books will still be selling. Eventually you may sell 5,000 - 10,000 copies in one week and get on the bestseller lists. This will spurn more sales, better deals, etc. 10 years down the road, and you'll have money coming in just from all the reprints and foreign rights even if you still haven't hit the bigtime.
Again, Moejoe continues to offer the fallacy of false choice: either you write for a LOT of money, which is unlikely, or you write because you enjoy it, in which case you should expect no money at all. Do you think Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon are rich? No, they live modest home in Oklahoma for a reason: it's cheap.
Moejoe, if you're happy with writing for free, that's great. But don't tell other writers that they're wrong for wanted to get paid for their work, or that they have to be Dan Brown to make a living at it.
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