This really spoke to me. Hard lesson to learn-that the world is so often rigged. Not one that i want to teach my kids. I have hope though, some people must break through. It's a sad struggle to be taken seriously in a corporate world when you have a tendency for the abstract too. And of course the struggles of writing and the prospect of never being published. Maybe our writing will be popular with our future alien overlords post death and we'll all be bestsellers in the year 3000...
I’m on my second book and love telling everyone that publishing is smoke and mirrors and that everyone is getting paid except the authors. Very very few authors are making money. Self-publishing is getting them paid better than any other avenue but it’s bloody hard work and has less status still obv. The whole industry stinks, because being able to be a writer is only for those who can afford it or burnout trying. It’s a massive barrier to many people who should write.
I’ve half written two books (not got nearly as far as you unless Microsoft word spellcheck counts as feedback) and some bad poetry. In awe that you even got that far. Essays next ? I feel like America has some great essayists and not so much here - time for a paradigm shift?
This really spoke to me. Hard lesson to learn-that the world is so often rigged. Not one that i want to teach my kids. I have hope though, some people must break through. It's a sad struggle to be taken seriously in a corporate world when you have a tendency for the abstract too. And of course the struggles of writing and the prospect of never being published. Maybe our writing will be popular with our future alien overlords post death and we'll all be bestsellers in the year 3000...
I’m on my second book and love telling everyone that publishing is smoke and mirrors and that everyone is getting paid except the authors. Very very few authors are making money. Self-publishing is getting them paid better than any other avenue but it’s bloody hard work and has less status still obv. The whole industry stinks, because being able to be a writer is only for those who can afford it or burnout trying. It’s a massive barrier to many people who should write.
I’ve half written two books (not got nearly as far as you unless Microsoft word spellcheck counts as feedback) and some bad poetry. In awe that you even got that far. Essays next ? I feel like America has some great essayists and not so much here - time for a paradigm shift?
I, too love your writing x
Oh this was such a brilliant read: poignant and funny and honest, so many of the reasons I love your writing x