The Full-Time Writing Life: If It Doesn't Kill You First, It'll Kill You Second

Recently, two extremely talented writers, Catherynne M. Valente and Tim Pratt, started writing fiction online in return for donations. Although this may indeed be one of the waves of the future for author transactions on the internet, both writers were forced into it by extremities of circumstance. In Valente's case this situation occurred because of many months of unemployment for her partner and other factors. In Pratt's case, the bottom fell out suddenly when his wife lost her job, which also