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
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.
@vaurora HEAR FRIGGIN' HEAR.
If I'da wanted to do advertising and marketing all the livelong day, I'da stayed in my advertising/marketing job, WHICH I HATED AND SUCKED AT.
Valerie Aurora
Greg Stolze