N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 26
Ah, the noble plight of the starving artist 🖋️—because clearly, the world is clamoring for yet another introspective essay on balancing #writing with the existential dread of rent payments. 🙄 This verbose ode to side hustles reads like a LinkedIn post no one asked for. 📚💸
https://lithub.com/the-work-behind-the-writing-on-writers-and-their-day-jobs/ #starvingartist #woes #sidehustle #existentialdread #verboseessays #HackerNews #ngated
The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs

For nineteen years, until his retirement in 1885, Herman Melville would awake, slick back his dark hair and unsnarl the snags from his beard, don a uniform of dark navy pilot cloth and affix to his…

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