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Re:Living the writing life means living with failure by NovaDudely on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:49PM (#35115924)
Author John Michael Greer said that for you to make a reasonable living out of writing you have to end up with a large back catalog. This can take well over a decade to accumulate.

Mind you this coming for a fellow that has a very weird catalog of occult/spirituality, peak oil stuff and politics/economics things. But over 80+ books, there seems to be just enough residual income that it is working out for him. But as he said, there was a very long time where living on the poverty line was the only way through.

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Re:Living the writing life means living with failure by ramg on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:51AM (#35117140)
I've now self-published one book and have started a second. I haven't made enough money to even pay for the cover art! But I'm doing this for myself and if it results in a back catalog that generates income, cool. If not, then also cool.
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