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[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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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Access to reasonably priced group health insurance is the biggest sticking point for me as well. I know too many writers who have made the leap to full-time status, only to find themselves in a financial crisis when they had health issues.

Honestly, I'd advise people not to do it without insurance. And it's hard to get that through to the very young and healthy. We all think we're immortal at that age. We don't know, until a friend is stricken, about MS, chronic fatigue, etc. And don't realize it often hits in the late 20s.