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For the frequent posters/bloggers here - what is your relationship with writing? I was reading Freddie DeBoer's fifteen years of writing where he reflects on his journey, and lord it is dark! I have aspirations of becoming at least a part-time blogger, and I do have a small blog, but don't work on it often.
I suppose my question is, do most people hate writing like Freddie after a while, or is he just uniquely crazy? I know there's a trope of mentally disturbed writers....
Surely most people who hate writing solve this problem by not doing it? The average pay is low and the variance is high. That variance might be a bit of a trap, for people who are lucky enough to get a wide audience quickly and only later discover that their muse is ready for them to quit but their bank account is not. But I'd expect that to be the exception, not the rule.
If you actually look for people who write prolifically without being paid for it, like frequent posters here, surely the selection bias is going to pick out people who love it. Even among paid prolific authors there's that bias. Asimov's attitude was roughly: "I never take vacations voluntarily, and I bring pen and paper so I can enjoy the ones I'm dragged along on". I loved his response to one incredulous interviewer, who asked something like: "But what if you found out you only had 6 months to live? What would you do then?" "Type faster."
Hah, well I like writing well enough now but I'm considering trying to make money on it. I'm definitely not on Asimov's level.
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