Your article may be slightly pessimistic but not nearly as much as an editor I once met in Banff, Alberta in 1999. Our conversation went like this:
"What do you write?" he asked.
"Short fiction."
"HA!" he mocked, "Good luck, buddy!"
"How can I improve my chances?"
"You really wanna make money writing? OK here's what you do: first become a big celebrity, then write a cookbook."
No kidding. That's what he said. I still write but not as much or as enthusiastically as I did five or six years ago. I have not yet started a cookbook.
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Date: 2006-05-15 04:58 pm (UTC)"What do you write?" he asked.
"Short fiction."
"HA!" he mocked, "Good luck, buddy!"
"How can I improve my chances?"
"You really wanna make money writing? OK here's what you do: first become a big celebrity, then write a cookbook."
No kidding. That's what he said. I still write but not as much or as enthusiastically as I did five or six years ago. I have not yet started a cookbook.