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Why You Are Not Making Money Writing
If you want your career to be profitable, forget the art.
Who is guaranteed to make money in the writing industry?
The ones earning are the publishing companies, agents, editors, graphic designers, printers, book stores -- basically, everyone involved in the project except the writer.
Do you know why every person involved in the process of publishing a book makes money except the person who wrote it?
Because the people who make the money are involved in the business of publishing. The writer is not.
If you want to make money as a writer, you need to stop being an artist and start being a business owner.
Abandon the Fantasy
Most new writers are in love with the romance of writing.
They see themselves in a rustic converted farmhouse, sitting beside a sunny window that perfectly frames the countryside while they spend their days writing a bestseller.
This fantasy is no different from our idea that famous actors don’t really work or models stand around and look pretty all day. It seems writers cling to the notion that having a lifestyle like this can be easily achieved when literally no one does this — not Stephen King, not JK Rowling, no one.
