Writers and Their Day Jobs
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#2Cormac McCarthy appears to be an exceptional case in this respect. I skimmed through a book about it once. Early on he basically earned his keep through grants and book sales. I think he persuaded one of his old ladies to get a job while he wrote. And apparently he was always writing; pitching one book in the middle of working on another. I guess film and television soon followed.
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#3Most of the jobs listed seem something you can do on autopilot, while your mind is doing something else, which would make sense for creative minds.
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#4Here's what opening that site without an ad blocker feels like:
https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/f9/gX6o2Jfu_o.png
Must be very conducive to reading
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#5Cormac McCarthy appears to be an exceptional case in this respect. I skimmed through a book about it once. Early on he basically earned his keep through grants and book sales. I think he persuaded one of his old ladies to get a job while he wrote. And apparently he was always writing; pitching one book in the middle of working on another. I guess film and television soon followed.
Doesn't sound exceptional to me. Most of the authors I have some personal knowledge of manage through exactly that: spouses, grants, book sales, residencies and teaching creative writing.
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#6> Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. "I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo," he says. "While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. 'But you're Philip Glass! What are you doing here?' It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. 'But you are an artist,' he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish."
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe...
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#7Here's what opening that site without an ad blocker feels like: https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/f9/gX6o2Jfu_o.png Must be very conducive to reading
That is both a comical and sad state of affairs.
Perhaps you would like the archived page instead if you don't have an adblocker, though I recommend installing one.
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#8Here's what opening that site without an ad blocker feels like: https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/f9/gX6o2Jfu_o.png Must be very conducive to reading
I have had ad blockers for so long that I forgot how the unfiltered web looks like. I don’t know how people do it.
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#9Here's what opening that site without an ad blocker feels like: https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/f9/gX6o2Jfu_o.png Must be very conducive to reading
I have had ad blockers for so long that I forgot how the unfiltered web looks like. I don’t know how people do it.
Those people pay for our web.
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#10Here's what opening that site without an ad blocker feels like: https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/f9/gX6o2Jfu_o.png Must be very conducive to reading
I think complaining about ads on a website is reasonable if you're paying to access the website.
If one day it becomes possible to host a website for free, it would also be reasonable to complain about ads on it.