Re:I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Pac...
by sytelus on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:33AM
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Writing is a huge business. It used to be the case the book authors often ended up with couple of hundreds of royalty. These days if you do it right, even niche authors make comfortable living. Authors with talent and in top of their games often rack up $1M-$10M in book sales. There are also plenty of writers who make their living through only blogs and many have celebrity level fame. Setting all these however require lot of tech savvyness and fine tuning over years. I hope someone can build platform that takes tech away from this problem. Overall, I think people are reading more than before and making money as an individual author is much more easier than before. The key is not being a worker for newpaper or magazine but look at yourself as tech startup founder whose product is writings.
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Re:I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Pac...
by CydeWeys on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:02PM
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Like music and acting, writing is one of those fields where it's very hard to strike it big, simply because there are so many others trying. You're over-estimating the chance of success here. And given how much lower the barrier to entry has become in the Internet era, I'd argue that making a living as an individual author is much harder than before, and that writing for someone else on salary is a much more sure way to make a living by writing. Do you have any source on your claim that it's much easier than ever before to make a living as an independent author?