Christopher L. Hedges
Living off of book sales leads to a great diet, no sales...no eating.
Seriously though if you are going to be a successful writer you are going to experience a great deal of growth. You are going to have to learn how to do interviews on TV and radio, internet marketing, networking, promotions, sales...You basically become a solopreneur because you can't afford to pay anyone to perform non writing tasks for you, or at least I couldn't.
In my experience there are very few jobs you can apply for that give you the ability to be creative, and develop a wide range of skills like writing does.
Seriously though if you are going to be a successful writer you are going to experience a great deal of growth. You are going to have to learn how to do interviews on TV and radio, internet marketing, networking, promotions, sales...You basically become a solopreneur because you can't afford to pay anyone to perform non writing tasks for you, or at least I couldn't.
In my experience there are very few jobs you can apply for that give you the ability to be creative, and develop a wide range of skills like writing does.
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