Court Cantrell does not complyRE: https://mastodon.social/@lfzz/116217790935476780
"Writing is thinking."
-- @lfzz
One of the best concise statements I have ever read.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)#thewritinglife is sometimes like this.
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It gets me down pretty frequently, how there are so many of us out here writing fresh, vivid stories that break from the popular mold to venture boldly into frontiers never before explored -- yet the people who have the money and the clout to bring our stories to the forefront ignore us entirely, in favor of the same voices with the same stories and the same posturing ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
#Capitalism is death.
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#WriterProblems
#BuyMyBooks
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If I haven't yet earned my place in the 9th Circle of Writers' Hell, surely this will do the trick.
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#NonAIart
#ArtByHuman
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#AbolishCapitalism
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Chuck MalloryWe all need a little Maya Angelou every day. Her words are poetic, and you can almost hear her loving voice when you read them.
What to do if you aren't selling as many copies of the latest book you've written. Just keep writing. More books, more readers.
Be like Tarzan, be brave.
#writers #thewritinglife #EdgarRiceBurroughs #Tarzan #bravery
BobDevney[Writer Matthew Mercier agrees with Kressel about writers' finances. On the subject of whether successful horror writers really rake in that sweet sweet, ah, let's call it blood money]
John Langan and Paul Tremblay are both public school teachers.
[Since 2008, writer Matthew Kressel has co-hosted the famous "Fantastic Fiction at KGB" barside reading series in Manhattan. (Each month, two spec fic authors read from their work, then everybody drinks.) Kressel indicates writing is not a job, it's an adventure.]
I'd say that less than 5 percent of the writers who come through the KGB series make a living as full-time writers.
[At Saturday's panel on The Works of Cecelia Tan, writer Laura Antoniou talks about how our overachieving Co-Guest of Honor (who later tells us that in the 1980s, in her mid-teens, she was scoring $250 checks for penning articles about Menudo) pioneered incredibly early exploitation of, basically, digital crowdfunding]
I admire Cecelia's mastery of capitalism. She made money writing on the internet before anyone else.