Fun or Profit?

[Quillwitch]

Here´s another question for you. How many of you here write with the intention of making it your future modus viviendi. You, know, become a full time writer. And how many of you just do it for fun?

 

[Paul Whybrow]

My attitude towards writing is that it's a joy for life, whether I get paid or not. Think of all of the other things that you do for pleasure - how much would getting paid for them add to your enjoyment?

A famous American radio disc jockey of the 1960s and 1970s, who went by the name of Wolfman Jack, once said something about his attitude to his job:

'I never work, I vacation all of the time.'

I try to adopt this attitude towards my writing, though I deny that I look like the Wolfman (except on full moons).

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[Jennifer Stone]

At the moment, writing is a past time, one that i enjoy. If my first book becomes a success, i may decide to make it a full time career, or at least more than a hobby.

 

[Quillwitch]

My attitude towards writing is that it's a joy for life, whether I get paid or not. Think of all of the other things that you do for pleasure - how much would getting paid for them add to your enjoyment?

A famous American radio disc jockey of the 1960s and 1970s, who went by the name of Wolfman Jack, once said something about his attitude to his job:

'I never work, I vacation all of the time.'

I try to adopt this attitude towards my writing, though I deny that I look like the Wolfman (except on full moons).

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I remember the wolfman!!!

 

[Quillwitch]

At the moment, writing is a past time, one that i enjoy. If my first book becomes a success, i may decide to make it a full time career, or at least more than a hobby.

Jenn--I went to your web page and even though this has nothing to do with your writing, i just had to say I LOVE YOUR HAIR!!!

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Don't get me wrong, I love writing, and I would keep doing it even if nothing pans out, but I would be lying if I didn't say I have hopes of being a full time author. My goal is to do this and get paid for it. Preferably enough so that I don't have to work otherwise. (I'm a hopeful sort ) That way, I can take time to spend more time on it.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Full time and for fun, although fun is far too short a word to describe what it really is. Time, eh, I need a time machine to make more!

 

[Marc Joan]

I echo what others say. I'm doing it because I love it, I find it difficult not to do it. It would be great if I could make a living out of it, but that is a will'o'the wisp ambition, I suspect...

 

[Emurelda]

My attitude towards writing is that it's a joy for life, whether I get paid or not. Think of all of the other things that you do for pleasure - how much would getting paid for them add to your enjoyment?

A famous American radio disc jockey of the 1960s and 1970s, who went by the name of Wolfman Jack, once said something about his attitude to his job:

'I never work, I vacation all of the time.'

I try to adopt this attitude towards my writing, though I deny that I look like the Wolfman (except on full moons).

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Hell..LoL!! Wow!

Thanks for this. Must look him up now.

 

[Carol Rose]

My intention is to make this my sole source of income which is why I push myself so hard, but at the same time it has to be fun for me or there's point in doing it.

 

[Emurelda]

My intention is to make this my sole source of income which is why I push myself so hard, but at the same time it has to be fun for me or there's point in doing it.

For now I just want to achieve the books in my head on paper. And learn the art. It is an art and I love learning.

One day, maybe, others might enjoy it half as much as I like conjuring up a story...whether its enough to profit from..i don't know. Would be foolish not to admit wanting that too.

 

[Karen Gray]

I do it for escape and with the hope that I can build it into a career that I can do at home so I can still care for hubby and support the family

 

[Meerkat]

I've made some money from writing, but that's not my motivation. I do it because I have to let all the thoughts in my head out somehow!

I have no expectations of ever supporting myself by it. If I did, I feel I would have to write for an audience, which I don't want to do. I don't think there's a thing wrong with writing with the intention of appealing to a certain audience--it's just not for me.

 

[Meerkat]

Actually, though, I've never considered writing a "hobby"--ever since I was 13, I've considered writing to be my life's work, my main mission in life. Everything else is just details. If I get paid, that's nice, but I would write even if I never saw a dime from it.

 

[Lex Black]

I wrote for fun for many years. For many more years after that, I tried to write for money, and made none. Now I can do neither.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I am writing with the intention of publishing and being paid for it, but I have vowed always to have a different "primary" job. I don't want writing to be a job, and I enjoy having all the time I want to write and pursue publishing, with no fear that I have to churn it out for a paycheck. I haven't written in a couple months — devoting time to Litopia, beta-reading, and have gotten an "author's Twitter" up and running. I couldn't have done much of this if I had to get a chapter written a day to publish by October to pay the rent. But I will always write and pursue a publishing deal.

 

[Karen Gray]

I am writing with the intention of publishing and being paid for it, but I have vowed always to have a different "primary" job. I don't want writing to be a job, and I enjoy having all the time I want to write and pursue publishing, with no fear that I have to churn it out for a paycheck. I haven't written in a couple months — devoting time to Litopia, beta-reading, and have gotten an "author's Twitter" up and running. I couldn't have done much of this if I had to get a chapter written a day to publish by October to pay the rent. But I will always write and pursue a publishing deal.

That's a good way to look at it

 

[Quillwitch]

I wrote for fun for many years. For many more years after that, I tried to write for money, and made none. Now I can do neither.

Oh no! So sorry to hear that. I´ve been there. Don´t worry, it will eventually come back.

 

[Quillwitch]

Well, I do hope to make writing my future career and I do hope that I can make enough money from my writing that I am able to quit my other job(s). And I have come to understand in the last year, that if I don´t dedicate enough time to my writing, I´ll never be able to get there. It´s not always fun , I have to admit it, sometimes it´s like getting a tooth pulled, but the more I write, the more comfortable I begin to feel with my texts. It´s a long a winding road!

 

[Karen Gray]

Well, I do hope to make writing my future career and I do hope that I can make enough money from my writing that I am able to quit my other job(s). And I have come to understand in the last year, that if I don´t dedicate enough time to my writing, I´ll never be able to get there. It´s not always fun , I have to admit it, sometimes it´s like getting a tooth pulled, but the more I write, the more comfortable I begin to feel with my texts. It´s a long a winding road!

Don't say that, I only get a few hours at a time here or there dotted throughout the week. It's more about nor stressing over your writing I think, and allowing it to flow, because then you will write LOADS in a very short amount of time x

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Don't say that, I only get a few hours at a time here or there dotted throughout the week. It's more about nor stressing over your writing I think, and allowing it to flow, because then you will write LOADS in a very short amount of time x

I think everyone's different in this aspect. Writing for me has always been a very difficult process. Only a handful of nights per book can I say that the words flowed out of me, not because I was forcing it, but because the act of writing is hard for me. I agree with @Quillwitch, sometimes writing is like pulling teeth.

 

[Carol Rose]

I think everyone's different in this aspect. Writing for me has always been a very difficult process. Only a handful of nights per book can I say that the words flowed out of me, not because I was forcing it, but because the act of writing is hard for me. I agree with @Quillwitch, sometimes writing is like pulling teeth.

There are days I can't stop writing, and other days I'm staring out the window, contemplating something totally insane like how many teeth an armadillo has. LOL!! Of course, the fact that I'm too damn tired to think most days after working might have something to do with that…. My best writing zone seems to be early morning, which is why this crazy woman is up at 4AM, even on weekends. By noon, the brain is mush, and anything I write will only be rewritten the next morning anyway.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

There are days I can't stop writing, and other days I'm staring out the window, contemplating something totally insane like how many teeth an armadillo has. LOL!! Of course, the fact that I'm too damn tired to think most days after working might have something to do with that…. My best writing zone seems to be early morning, which is why this crazy woman is up at 4AM, even on weekends. By noon, the brain is mush, and anything I write will only be rewritten the next morning anyway.

Props to you for waking up at 4AM! My brain doesn't work that early. The only times I'm up before 7 is if I need to go for a run but that's about all I can do. The earliest I've been able to write is about 10 AM; most days I'm writing between 6-11PM just because that's when I have free time.

 

[Carol Rose]

Props to you for waking up at 4AM! My brain doesn't work that early. The only times I'm up before 7 is if I need to go for a run but that's about all I can do. The earliest I've been able to write is about 10 AM; most days I'm writing between 6-11PM just because that's when I have free time.

It took me two years to get used to it. Literally. Props to YOU for writing until 11 PM. I'm long asleep by then.

 

[Karen Gray]

Wow, I've never had that issue. Not looking forward to it if it comes along either :/ I think I would actually die inside if I couldn't write. It's my only venting platform

 

[Meerkat]

Writing has always been like pulling teeth for me, too. No matter how much I want to say something, I consistently have to make myself do it every day.

 

[Karen Gray]

Can I ask what it is about the act that is hard for you? Is it the thinking of ideas or translating them from brain to page or loss of mojo or something else?

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Can I ask what it is about the act that is hard for you? Is it the thinking of ideas or translating them from brain to page or loss of mojo or something else?

For the sake of this, I'm going to count the different steps in the writing process as separate. Thinking of ideas is a different task, same as outlining (which I do heavily) and editing. It's the physical act of sitting there, with my scene cards (so I do know what's going to happen) and actually typing the darn thing. Coming up with the right words to express the movie that's in my head.

When I'm writing my books, I stick to a relatively strict 5000 words a week count (since I want this to eventually become my paycheck, I'm training myself to churn out a book a year, which I'm already doing splendidly). That means typing 5 or 6 nights a week, staring at the computer while I desperately try to find the right words. Because if I don't make myself sit down and write -- if I wait for inspiration or for the words to flow -- I will literally never finish another novel. It just doesn't happen that way for me.

I think @Jason Byrne said that George RR Martin said that some people like writing. He likes having written. That's me. Writing is freakin hard. But I love having that finished MS in my hands, knowing I've crafted a story that I would pick up in a store. Don't get me wrong; I don't hate writing. It's just freakin hard. Hope that sheds some light on it

 

[Meerkat]

Can I ask what it is about the act that is hard for you? Is it the thinking of ideas or translating them from brain to page or loss of mojo or something else?

The thinking of ideas is easy. The planning the stories is easy. The editing the stories is easy.

But the sitting down TO WRITE SOMETHING BRILLIANT RIGHT NOW freezes me.

I am, of course, aware, and have written on my blog, that no one writes anything brilliant in the first draft. It's still a block for me.

I've tried to trick my way around this lately by writing my stories longhand. I keep a longhand journal, and I never have any problems writing away in my journal because it's not formal. So I've been curling up on the couch with a notebook and trying to write fiction longhand so that my brain thinks I'm just scribbling instead of composing Great Literature.

So far, it works well.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

The thinking of ideas is easy. The planning the stories is easy. The editing the stories is easy.

But the sitting down TO WRITE SOMETHING BRILLIANT RIGHT NOW freezes me.

I am, of course, aware, and have written on my blog, that no one writes anything brilliant in the first draft. It's still a block for me.

I've tried to trick my way around this lately by writing my stories longhand. I keep a longhand journal, and I never have any problems writing away in my journal because it's not formal. So I've been curling up on the couch with a notebook and trying to write fiction longhand so that my brain thinks I'm just scribbling instead of composing Great Literature.

So far, it works well.

Yes yes and yes One thing I've done is to adopt the principles of NaNoWriMo in my writing - limited editing and if I run into a sentence or something that I just can't get right, I'll mark it (usually with ** so I can find it easily when I'm going back through my MS) and move on. That's been hard for me, but great for my writing. I've gotten past many a research-induced-distraction that way.