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Subject:Re[2]: To Laugh or Cry? From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM Date:Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:46:00 -0600
Tech Pubs pays top dollar -- and is steady money -- compared to the
rest of the writing world. (If you want to emulate the chance for
riches that fiction writers have, spend a few bucks on the lottery
once in a while.)
Let me toss an "Amen" onto that thought. I was once offered the chance to
write some "Choose your own adventure"-style books, at the grand rate of a
flat $2000 each.
I a read a statistic several years back that claimed there were less than
400 fiction writers worldwide who made a full-time living from their
writing; we've got more full-time tech writers than that just on techwr-l
alone. Five cents a word seems paltry, perhaps, but to a fiction writer
it's the going rate.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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Opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.
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