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Originally Posted by Vintage Season
Some of us also ascribe to the idea of establishing a reputation for producing quality material, trying to make some of it readily available so folks can decide whether they like it, and hoping to earn future dividends by having established goodwill among our readership.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that essentially the approach you are already taking on your own website?
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All... except the "future dividends by having established goodwill" part. I am actually writing to make
present dividends, since I do not for a moment believe that interest in my novels will last for more than a few years after their writing, nor that anyone will be talking fondly of my work in the future. I've had my fifteen seconds of fame, and I expect to be unknown and un-spoken-of in a very short time, and for the rest of my life. Because, let's face it... the stuff ain't
that good.
I hope to make future dividends, not from establishing goodwill among readers, but by demonstrating an ability to write, in order to parlay that into a paid writing position that will hopefully finance (or replace) my retirement. That is where I see a possible future... not from writing, of all things, science fiction.