Not exact matches
But after sitting on the information over the weekend, I concluded that letting this
kind of deception slide does a disservice to the
writers I've been trying to help the past couple
of months.
Over the last
month or so I have been hammered by all
kinds of writers bent on the belief, the myth, that giving a percentage
of their work away is a good and smart thing to do.
Yet the two activities go hand in hand, and both must be sustained over a period
of years, not
months, to get the
kind of sustainable income most
writers dream about.
As an aspiring
writer that has six
months of serious writing and twenty years
of dreaming about writing under my belt, this
kind of information is invaluable.
I have always thought that if I am going to make any
kind of career as a
writer I will have to write at least a book a year, possibly two (I currently take around 9 - 12
months, including rewrites).
The only justification for that
kind of money is if the
writer is one
of a few true masters
of the executive - level resume (we found one here), or the resume package includes multiple hours
of legitimate career counseling, or access to a cubicle, phone and fax for a few
months (like the offerings
of some outplacement services).