2007-12-21 14:05:08 · 8 answers · asked by brady m 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
My dear about 5% of published authors make a living at it. Most have ordinary jobs. Glen Cook is one of my favorite authors. I figure he wrote about 25 books in the fantasy genre all while working on the GM Light Truck Assembly line. Seeing your name on a book is a wonderful thing, but expecting to be living the life of luxury from it is very unrealistic. It just doesn't happen to that many people. Very few write full time, and most of those work their tail off with freelance assignments between novels and ghostwriting assignments - neither of which are easy to get. Lower your expectations a bit. It just doesn't work that way. As for immortality, most of the time immortality means ending up in the bargain bins where you make ZERO dollars in royalties.
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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.
Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.
Pax - C
2007-12-21 14:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It depends on why you write in the first place. If your goal is to become rich, then forget it. If you write because you have a story you'd like to share with the world, then the benefits are exactly that. I have not become wealthy from my first novel, and I doubt I will, but I feel an incredible sense of pride when someone tells me they have read my words and enjoyed them. It's a shame that in this country the actors who portray the characters are more famous than those who created them in the first place.
2007-12-22 14:07:10 · answer #2 · answered by Piper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are among the top 100 writers of the year, its fantastic. Unfortunately, you'll have to knock off several thousand published writers to get there.
Almost all writers have day jobs. You can't count on writing income to pay for anything.
2007-12-22 11:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can get a good story in, until the Writer's Guild strike is over, and it becomes a best seller, you'd be living big for awhile.
The key is to keep editing and submitting those manuscripts. Also learn that every rejection letter is an opportunity.
2007-12-21 22:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Agent319.007 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The satisfaction of having something that you've labored over,lost sleep over,picked up and put down countless times before finishing it is VERY satisfying but,getting it published and having read(and hopefully enjoyed by perhaps millions of people?)FANTASTIC!
TL
2007-12-21 22:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by TL 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Would it be better than being UN-published?
2007-12-21 22:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by ugh192 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont know but if your a goos author then yes and benefits are immortalirty
2007-12-21 22:08:20 · answer #7 · answered by *renfield* 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Getting to know an orthopedist. I married mine.
Boy, you can't beat carpal tunnel.
2007-12-21 22:08:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋