Forum / One reason its hard to make a living writing.

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  David Ackley

  Apr 24, 06:23pm

  I just bought Shakespeare's complete works for my kindle for 99 cents.

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  Chris Okum

  Apr 24, 06:27pm

  This world is a racket. No one makes any money, yet someone is making a lot of money.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Apr 24, 06:58pm

  "its hard to make a living writing"

  How can that be true when so many people here list their occupation as "writer/editor"?

  ;-)

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Apr 24, 08:48pm

  ...because, obviously, anyone who lists their occupation as writer/editor/author/memoirist/etc., is making AT LEAST $30-$50,000 a year from their writing alone.

  Or else they wouldn't identify as such.

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  David Ackley

  Apr 24, 09:12pm

  My dodge is "writer/teacher," which is only half a stretch since I got paid to teach. Why someone would get paid to teach writing who couldn't get paid for writing is a good question though.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Apr 24, 09:19pm

  You get a pass because of "teacher."

  ;-)

  (and, for the record, you can write...)

  But I agree, it's not like the old days when to get something to read you had to pay, SOMEONE was making a buck or two, even if it was the used-book store owner (bless their hearts) or the liberry.

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Apr 24, 09:20pm

  Emily Dickinson never made a living writing in her lifetime. Was she not a poet? Not according to the dictum of Mr. Dennison, who, by the way, is not Zlatko Buric.

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  whatwouldbukowskido

  Apr 24, 09:26pm

  "Emily Dickinson never made a living writing in her lifetime. Was she not a poet?"

  It's what she did, it's what she was, it's what occupied her time/life/soul, but, as you say, it's not what paid her bills.

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Apr 25, 02:56am

  "The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." Robert Frost

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