Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money

Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money

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.

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This is so good.

THIS IS SO GOOD.

Lots of wanna-be writers wax rhapsodic about how great it would be to ditch the day job and just spend all their time clickety-clack typing away. These folks are idiots. Look, people: someone is paying you money and giving you benefits, both of which can support your writing career, and all you have to do is show up, do work that an unsupervised monkey could do, and pretend to care. What a scam! You’re sticking it to The Man, dude, because you’re taking that paycheck and turning it into art. And you know how The Man hates that. You’re supposed to be buying a big-screen TV with that paycheck! Instead, you’re subverting the dominant paradigm better than an entire battalion of college socialists. Well done, you. Well done, indeed.