[ SECRET POST #2493 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2493 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't Neil Gaiman have a career as a journalist before he started writing Sandman? Journalist is in no way a reasonable career these days, since newspapers have all but folded, but he was already making a living writing, and then started... writing more?

[(Anonymous)]

You can still do online journalism, though. There's still a market.

[(Anonymous)]

HA. HA AHAHAHAHAHA. HA! Good luck getting noticed in a flooded market. Either that or get to be a super low-paid or no-pay intern!

[(Anonymous)]

Moron.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeaaaaah. I tried to do the online freelancing from home thing for a couple months between jobs. If you can get ten cents a word, you're doing exceptionally well; if you can put together enough ten-cents-a-word gigs to pay your rent and buy food, and/or convince a publisher to pay you the equivalent of a living wage, you're a fucking superstar.

There are a lot more people who can write reasonably well than there are jobs for them.

[(Anonymous)]

He did, yeah. I'm pretty sure he mentions that as being part of his writing career, the fact that he HAD to write for a living because the other alternative was starving. He kind of avoids the fact that making a living in journalism or freelance was easier back then than it is now. These days, writing pays peanuts and lots of places seem to expect content providers to do their thing for "exposure", i.e. no paycheck.

[(Anonymous)]

Technical writing is where I make my living, and it's a reasonable and steady income, supplemented by my fiction writing. Academia, translation, specialised technical/scientific writing, even big chunks of teaching at higher grade levels or adult education...it's all writing, and there's lots of career paths there. Very few writers have ever made a living purely out of writing fiction (even extremely popular, prolific writers like Twain and Dickens) but I don't think there's anything wrong with honing your writing skills and using them for a regular job as well.

[(Anonymous)]

He also comes from a wealthy Scientologist family who didn't let him starve during his twenties and thirties. (http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gaiman-Neil.html) He likes to conveniently ignore that fat while telling teenagers to get stuck in the writing trap.