Sometimes your internet life and your real life meet in the most unlikely ways.
For an Instagram star, this might be when they get caught for Photoshopping in a sponsored tan, and out a dimpled arse.
On Facebook, it might be when you’re tagged in a photograph on the night you swore to your soon-to-be-ex best friend you were not going out.
On Snapchat, it…. Oh, who cares? It’s Snapchat.
My two lives collided briefly this week when I read an article in the Guardian about a publisher which is going to pay writers a salary to give up all other paid employment and write full-time.
Apparently, this publisher reckons that writers can’t get really good at it, unless they can do it without the distraction of having to earn money elsewhere. The Guardian says:
De Montfort Literature, a new publishing company that is part of London hedge fund De Montfort Capital…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
This is an interesting idea and my thanks to you, Chris for drawing it to my attention.
While I wouldn’t say know where a rich patron to pay me to spend my time exclusively composing poetry, I do feel that the life experience gained through work can help to make writing more rounded. Of course life experience divorced from employment is also extremely valuable, however spending one’s whole time in one’s spare room writing would, I think drive some writers up the wall, quite literally. Kevin
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Plus, there’d be the worry about suddenly becoming unemployed if the writing wasn’t accepted by the employers, Kevin
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Not dissimilar to an advance for a second as-yet-unwritten work, in that case – we don’t know yet which is the more stressful, given that this scheme hasn’t been tested yet….
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InDEED, Tara 😱
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You make an excellent point, Chris. In the former Soviet Union writers who towed the line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) received many priveleges, including free writing retreats, but god help those who criticised (or where perceived to criticise) the ruling ideology. It wasn’t merely a case of losing one’s employment (which is bad enough) but also of being imprisoned or persecuted in some other manner.
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Good points, Kevin
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