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> For a time, you could make a living writing short stories for genre rags If you could write fast and didn't mind the occasional can of dog food.
by Finnucane 3y ago
> For a time, you could make a living writing short stories for genre rags
If you could write fast and didn't mind the occasional can of dog food.
- bamfly 3y agoTrue—it usually wasn't an amazing living. But it was a not-totally-implausible direction to go, if perhaps not the best move. Isn't even that, now. IDK what the equivalent poorly-paid-but-is-a-career-in-fiction-writing move is now. Probably video game writing, though you won't be getting to come up with your own stories at the bottom rungs.
- Finnucane 3y agoSupposedly Bob Silverberg at his peak, could do 10,000 words a day. He shared an office with another writer who was driven mad by the nonstop typing.