And the best way to know you’re a real writer? You get this gorgeous geek-writer QUERTY painting from the amazing, incredible, real painter-type ArtistAlex Zonis [originally posted on Marcia Meara’s The Write Stuff and only slightly updated.]
Okay, we get it. Writers are screwed.
Over the past year, it’s everywhere. People keep emailing/texting/posting links about surveys showing writers only earning 1/3 of pre-pandemic amounts (although since they weren’t even approaching minimum wage to start, it’s a low bar anyway…). Seriously, guys. Writing doesn’t pay? You’re depressed? This is news?
Once in New York we accidentally ate dinner at Ellen’s Stardust Diner, where the (maskless) waiters enchanted the tourists as they delivered Broadway show tunes along with their milkshakes and burgers. The staff were young, attractive, and talented. Each had probably been their high school’s most special snowflake. Even more probably, this was as close as any of them would…
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Writers don’t earn a living even if the books do well. There are a few “big time” writers, but they made money when their books were turned into movies. The rest of us? Minimum wage? If I wasn’t working for me, my wages would be illegal. Luckily, I don’t expect to make money at it.
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The dog makes more than me, I have to say … bu that is not why I write 😉
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Is Ani perhaps planting the roses now instead of keeping them from growing? Lol
I hope i will be able meeting you both very soon. Nothing better than personally having a look into the eyes of Ani, to experience their sideways glance at you. Lol Michael
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Ani’s eyes are unforgettable.
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Oh yes! She has really questioning eyes too. 😉
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She does 🙂
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I blame my children and their whiny, incessant demands for luxuries like food and a roof and pediatric antibiotics that cost more per ounce than my wedding ring. If not for that, I could happily have been a writer years earlier.
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They are such demanding creatures. At least Ani buys her own treats these days 😉
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thanks for the advice, amen
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🙂
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