Here is the truth of Writing as a Career:Writing is a longterm investment. It is not one big idea, and then payday for life. Itās countless, countless big and little ideas, all carefully crafted and positioned, like investments made in a 401k. (Or at least, thatās what I hope 401ks are like. Probably not today.)This is not going to be you leaping on a stage with the audience in wonder. This is going to be you carefully building the audience and the stage over years, if not decades, and then, if youāre lucky, climbing on top.If you are looking for a career in writing, you are not looking for that one big payday, because even if you do find it, itās deeply unlikely that this will last you for the rest of your life. A bestseller, by itself, wonāt be there when youāre fifty, or when your kids are off to college, unless itās a mega huge super blockbuster bestseller ā and if this is what youāre waiting on, then you are essentially playing the lottery for a career.If you are looking for a career in writing, what you want is a nice backlist of books that have earned out their advances and are making royalties. This gives you moderately steady, dependable income. A goodish amount every two or three months or so. That is, for most writers, a very good situation.Is it enough to retire on comfortably for the rest of your life? Probably not. Almost certainly not. Will it be something you can achieve in 2-3 years? No. It will probably take a decade or more.So you will almost certainly need something else. Some other way to get affordable healthcare, some other way to make your mortgage or car payments, some other way to pay for preschool or a college fund. Some other way, in other words, to finance the grand adventure that is Being a Fucking Adult.
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