Valerie AuroraApr 15, 2023

Making a living as a writer in 2023 is so weird. Your choices are:

* nepo baby staff writer for legacy media fawning over billionaires and peddling fascism
* writing 3 email newsletters a week and making the most obscure one subscriber only
* organizing a community of your fans and charging for access to it
* starting your own publishing business and asking fans to pay you up front to write the next book

Show threadValerie AuroraApr 15, 2023

All of these ways of making a living writing are morally fine except for the first.

My complaint as a reader is that they all involve major skill sets in addition to writing book-length materials, severely limiting the people who can make a living writing and therefore the things available for me to read.

Show threadLuke Kanies
@vaurora it seems like almost every creative job, or anything where you work independently, has this flaw. It’s exactly why I did not like consulting or being a venture-backed founder.
Apr 15, 2023 at 11:30pmWeb