Figure it out: A page is about 250 words (8.5x11, double spaced). Figure if
you're including the time spent typing, thinking creatively, editing and
proofreading carefully, etc, you can do about a page an hour of quality
work. At $.02 per word, that's $5 per hour.
Last I checked, McDonald's paid $5.75 an hour to flip hamburgers.
But back to writing. At $5 per hour, 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year,
that's $10,000 a year. Which is well below poverty level.
To get up to $20,000 a year, you need to either work twice as much, twice as
fast, or for twice as much money. Work twice as much and you get burned out,
work twice as fast and you turn into a hack, work for twice as much money
and you need to tell all of us where you're working so we can get jobs there
too.
This is exactly why 90% of writers in the United States work a full-time job
to support their writing income. It does not pay well.
Hence, my original comment. We don't do this for money. We do it because we
love to write.
>No...but I might be willing to do it for a small fraction of what I'd
>earn if I spent the same time as a freelance programmer...or as a burger
>flipper at McDonalds, for that matter. :)
>
>If I could be sure of making 20->25K a year writing, I would give up my
>current job to do it, though it would mean a critical lifestyle crunch.
>(The spousal unit approves.) Anyone need a (published professionally,
>and not just in R&R, though I'm quite proud of that in itself) writer?
>
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