#WordWeavers 14: Is selling your work for money important to you when you write?
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#WordWeavers 14: Is selling your work for money important to you when you write?
In the early 90s a big trad publisher offered to take a second look at my novel if I rewrote it to make the story-line more conventional and removed the queer content from the character- and world-building.
I had friends in and around the publishing industry: from writers to retail, and I knew by then that software engineering was (sometimes) creatively satisfying and far more likely to pay a living wage. 1/
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#WordWeavers 14: Is selling your work for money important to you when you write?
In the early 90s a big trad publisher offered to take a second look at my novel if I rewrote it to make the story-line more conventional and removed the queer content from the character- and world-building.
I had friends in and around the publishing industry: from writers to retail, and I knew by then that software engineering was (sometimes) creatively satisfying and far more likely to pay a living wage. 1/
#WordWeavers 14 selling 2/
I decided that creating worlds and stories did not require publishing (or income on its own account) before I retired.
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