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I know this feeling... I want to make a living writing. I am tired of working at the supermarket, of not earing enough money or having a social life or being stuck on foodstamps when they can decide to cut 90% of them. Currently I dislike my life and situation...
I have a hard time getting my head around the sheer productivity you describe and the apparent lack of reward for it. it's rigoddamndiculous! not to mention fairly depressing.
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I have to sell my manuscript to a publisher. Generally, you need an agent. So I have to query agents, get one of them to read the manuscript, agree to represent it, and hopefully, sell it to a publishing house.
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I mentioned this thread to a coworker, Barbara. It's her bf (Jim) who is the electrician/tinsmith. Jim does demos at our local Fort Museum. Jim knows a guy who does this six months of the year and collects unemployment for the other six months. Apparently he gets enough to live on.
The types of things Jim makes include small things you can hold in your hands. I think Barbara mentioned some of his recent work - a wall sconce is the only thing I can remember. I'll email you his email addy so you can ask him quesions if you want. He does trade on ebay, but the name Barbara gave me didn't come up.
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Because I've been told that by many brutally honest people.
And I could easily do a photography book...one of my projects was a photojournalessay thing that I still have to finish.
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what did the brutally honest people say? were they familiar with the writing content found in the places you were submitting to?
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I've actually sold some stuff at a fundraiser for my schools art department. Jewelry made from silver and antique watch parts.
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To sell or to do? Sorry, I should have prefaced that last post with the commercial/biz aspect you lamented in the post I was originally interested in.
on the writing thing. where do you think the disconnect is between your harsh but available critics and your unresponsive, unavailable (commercial) ones?
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I could try and "play" agent. What are you trying to do?
