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Originally Posted by GlennD
And what kind of output will your good, passionate writers have? Someone who writes solely because they love it still has to eat. Someone who is out working a 40 hour job and is squeezing in writing on top of it is clearly going to write far fewer pages than someone who can spend that 40 hours a week writing. I like to read those big thick multi-volume fantasy epics - I don't see how anyone could ever finish one while holding down a day job.
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And yet easily the best known of those multi-volume fantasy epics was written by a man who was working full-time as a professor. And he wrote it because he had a story that he wanted to tell...to his children.