Author John Scalzi tells it STRAIGHT, with BOTH BARRELS, from POINT BLANK RANGE, but heed his advice and it may not hurt quite so much 😀
I made $164,000 last year from my writing. I’ve averaged more than $100,000 in writing income for the last ten years, which means, for those of you who don’t want to bother with the math, that I’ve made more than a million dollars from my writing in the last decade. In 2000, I wrote a book on finance, The Rough Guide to Money Online. For several years I wrote personal finance newsletters for America Online. When I do corporate consulting, it’s very often been for financial services companies like Oppenheimer Funds, US Trust and Warburg Pincus. I mention this to you so that you know that when I offer you, the new, aspiring and dewey-eyed writer, the following entirely unsolicited advice about money, I’m not talking entirely out of my ass.
Why am I offering this entirely unsolicited advice about money to new writers? Because it very often appears…
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Summarize as: treat writing as self-employment in a seasonal business – and you won’t be surprised.
A good post I’d read a long time ago – and the basics have not changed. Don’t throw money around unless you’re sure more will replace it. It means going without the things you can’t afford. And that’s a big surprise because?
A post I was grateful to read again. Thanks.
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Welcome Alicia 😀
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What Noel said 🙂 Although I do appreciate the reblog, Chris 🙂
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Largely good advice, but he writes for a niche market that is probably not overly populated with writers and a market (business and finance) that can afford to pay. Just saying…
There are a couple of items of advice I will take seriously.
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