“Good for them. Even they, however, must know these numbers are not a given.” - I am pretty sure they do. It took Dean Koontz 15 years from he went all-in on his writing (with the help of his wife) until he got a bestseller. Patterson still worked his advertising job when Along came a Spider became a success. There are many ways to earn money and fame easily (I guess), but writing isn’t one of them. Let’s cherish the few we have reading our stories and write for them. But more importantly, lets do it for ourself, because as you said: We can’t NOT write :) Great article, as always, Tammy.
I know that, for me, I've just been stretched thin lately. I've had no time to write, much less read. Which leads to all sorts of guilty feelings, of course. I want to be writing every day, but that's proved unrealistic. I came to the conclusion that I'd rather write quality pieces that are well thought out, things that I'm proud of, rather than focusing on quantity and cranking something out that's half-baked that I feel "meh" about.
Regardless, I've got a lot of catching up to do on both writing and reading.
Things were going pretty great for me last year but December and January have been complete shit. Stats (and therefore, earnings) are in the toilet. I've started to see an uptick in the past week. Ironically enough, I haven't even published in 5 days.
This is one crazy game, that's for sure.
You hang in there and I'll do the same and we'll keep on doing what we do. Hopefully things will pick up soon.
“Good for them. Even they, however, must know these numbers are not a given.” - I am pretty sure they do. It took Dean Koontz 15 years from he went all-in on his writing (with the help of his wife) until he got a bestseller. Patterson still worked his advertising job when Along came a Spider became a success. There are many ways to earn money and fame easily (I guess), but writing isn’t one of them. Let’s cherish the few we have reading our stories and write for them. But more importantly, lets do it for ourself, because as you said: We can’t NOT write :) Great article, as always, Tammy.
I know that, for me, I've just been stretched thin lately. I've had no time to write, much less read. Which leads to all sorts of guilty feelings, of course. I want to be writing every day, but that's proved unrealistic. I came to the conclusion that I'd rather write quality pieces that are well thought out, things that I'm proud of, rather than focusing on quantity and cranking something out that's half-baked that I feel "meh" about.
Regardless, I've got a lot of catching up to do on both writing and reading.
Things were going pretty great for me last year but December and January have been complete shit. Stats (and therefore, earnings) are in the toilet. I've started to see an uptick in the past week. Ironically enough, I haven't even published in 5 days.
This is one crazy game, that's for sure.
You hang in there and I'll do the same and we'll keep on doing what we do. Hopefully things will pick up soon.