This can backfire. A good friend from high school went this route and he's still never published anything. He now has 15 years of no real job history. A bigger

This can backfire. A good friend from high school went this route and he's still never published anything. He now has 15 years of no real job history. A bigger problem is that from an artistic viewpoint, his writing keeps getting worse. It's easy to just slide into solipsism when you're living so cheaply that you don't ever have to write anything other people would ever want to read.