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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Can it ever truly be someone's motivation for writing?
I'd find it hard to maintain enthusiasm over the course of 80,000 words, if all I was thinking about was how many Aston Martin's I could buy at the end of it.
The joy of writing's about making up a story and running with it (followed by the hours upon hours of necessary editing, of course)
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I read Robert A. Heinlein's autobigraphy a few years ago.
He said he started out writing short stories, he did need to make just a few bucks. Some magazine was having a new writer's contest. Prize was $75.
It felt good when he won.
He discovered as time went by that it was like a 'monkey on his back'.
He had to write novels to assuage that monkey.