2007-03-05 03:06:33 · 12 answers · asked by Dreamer 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes, being a published writer is considered a career, but not a well paid one. Only 3% of writers actually make a living by writing. All the rest have other jobs they do in addition to writing or have someone to support them (husband or wife or family).
If you want to make writing your career, the jobs that have salaries and benefits are technical writing and journalism. All others you get paid when you deliver.
2007-03-05 04:17:49 · answer #1 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It'll never be considered a career by some unimaginative d***heads who think that writers swan about from party to party and somehow magically excrete books without any actual effort. ...Sorry, a certain amount of personal bitterness betrayed, there, I think.
It really depends on who you want to consider it a career. The tax people? Your parents? Your lover? Many of them will never agree. Only those who get to see you trudging off to put the hours in will realise that it's just as much (if not more so) of a career as most of the non-jobs that people actually get paid non-insulting money for.
2007-03-05 13:06:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a career if you look at it as one, if you write one book, you're a published writer, but that isn't your career. If you have books published and are constantly working on more, it's your career.
2007-03-05 22:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dan A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are making your living from it (as I do) then yes! As a writer you always get people asking "but what else do you do..." people cannot comprehend jobs that they don't understand! How can someone make a living doing something they love? Well, some of us took the risks in the first place!
2007-03-05 11:51:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cherrypink 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you're good enough to make money at it, then yes. If you publish stuff on your blog/ pay someone else to publish your work, then I'd consider that a hobby.
2007-03-05 06:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Athene1710 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anything you get paid for is a career...
Any writer that is not a famous writer, will tell you that it isin't always a lucrative career, but a career non the less.
2007-03-05 03:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Certainly if you are being paid for your writing as distinct from 'Vanity Publishing' where you pay a publisher to have your book printed ,marketed and distributed on your behalf.
2007-03-05 03:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by bearbrain 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not by me!
I heard a couple of fellers talking in a pub, one asked the other what he did for a living, the other one said "I'm a published author", the first guy said "Yes but what do you do for a lving"??
Just about sums it up for me.
2007-03-05 05:33:47 · answer #8 · answered by budding author 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It depends on how much money you're making. If you don't need an additional "day job", yeah, it's a career.
2007-03-05 03:11:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you are making income from these published books then yes if not its just a hobby
2007-03-05 03:12:49 · answer #10 · answered by co 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋