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If you don't feel like living in "the pit," you could just get a full time job that isn't all-consuming. Working an hour or two a night, finishing a first draft
by GavinB 17y ago
If you don't feel like living in "the pit," you could just get a full time job that isn't all-consuming. Working an hour or two a night, finishing a first draft of a book only takes a few months. You should then end up spending six months to a year or more revising, especially if you're waiting for readers to get back to you.
For most people the challenge isn't money or time, it's sticking with the project for the year (sometimes several) it takes to produce a manuscript worth submitting.
- mortenjorck 17y agoThis applies to product development, too. As 37signals demonstrated, it's not impossible to build a full SaaS product on 10 hours a week: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1605-ask-37signals-how-many-hours-should-i-work-per-week http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1605-ask-37signals-how-many-h... Of course they were lucky on a number of counts for that to actually work out, but really, the big thing they got right was probably motivation. When you're already making a steady income, the push to ship something you've been building on the side is nowhere near the push to ship something that's your full-time gig.