You Mean Writing Can’t Be My Career?!

[darkdel]

 Michael Berger blogging on Publishers Weekly posted this. Let's hear from the witers in horror and see what they have to say about it.


“What the profiles fail to reveal is that the literary apprenticeship is a lengthy one for the majority, that getting published at all is difficult, and to get paid enough to not do anything else but write is virtually a dream.

The supposed average money earned by a novelist is $10,000, but if that novel takes two years to write, then cut that in half, $5,000. As one online article trenchantly stated: ‘Most novelists and story writers would make more money if they worked full-time at McDonald’s.’”

[lisam]

David Morrell once estimated that there are no more than 300 writers in this country making a living from writing fiction alone. If you're not counting screenplay options, non-fiction articles, and supportive spouses...yep, that's probably about right.

[RBPayne]

I'll bet that there are at least 300 writers making a decent living in Paris. Oh yeah, forget it, they've got all that crappy food and wine AND health care.

[darkdel]

Who can read that shit anyway. It's all poetry and in another language.

[Michael Louis Calvillo]

I suppose I'm better off trying out for the Lakers or auditioning for American Idol 

Oh well, that anybody pays me anything to ramble on, engaging my narcissism, spouting off disturbing, profane crap, completely boggles my mind.