*sigh*

[ksmith]

An interesting post by an agent tailor-made to burst my little soap bubble dreams.

I dream of the quit-the-day-job deal. I am also a tad security-conscious. I once took one of those on-the-job personality tests--the results were a tie between "entrepreneur" and "security", which is about as conflicted a result as you can get.

To be a full-time writer. The books need to keep selling, and you need to keep writing them. For 20, 30, 40 years or more.

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[rosefox]

My parents are writers. I watched them both give up on novels and switch to more commercial products (my father to science/tech journalism, my mother to articles, how-tos, and little impulse-buy gift books). Even if I wasn't sure that depending on fiction income would kill the fun of it for me--and I really think it would--I would be highly skeptical of the market.