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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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      1/ interesting thread via @kendrictonn a similar dynamic exists in fiction writing - the way to earn the big bucks is, apparently, to crank out 3-6 novel-shaped-objects per year https://t.co/SvF4qBgMu0 

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

      2/ Gotta feed the monkey, man!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMu7HB8arJQ …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

      3/ So, anyway, the fasted I can write novels is on the order of one every 3-4 years, so I'm never gonna have great commercial success. Tangentially: it is a crime that A. G. Riddle sells so many books. I purchased one once and realized that it was a 15 minute rewrite of "Lost"

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          4/ But, you know, we live in a fallen world. Mediocre authors make millions, while many of the authors I love no longer write novels because their day jobs pay them more. McDonalds sells more meals than El Bulli. So be it.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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          5/ https://twitter.com/illiteralworst/status/1343618702185381889 …

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          6/ What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEsTCTuajE …

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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          7/ There's something to this, but my fanbase isn't that huge. Looking at some numbers, Staking a Claim ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081MW4W4Z … ) did about $150 in royalties over the last 90 days, or $600/yr ... at a price of $2.99 ebook / $9.99 / trade. https://twitter.com/octal/status/1343619487417954306 …

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          8/ Now, of course, if I wrote 1 such story per month for a year, at the end of the year - if they all sold that well - I'd be making $6k/yr, and that's not nothing. I had plans to do this in 2019 (failed) and again in 2020 (failed). Maybe take another stab in 2021 ?

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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          9/ yeah, this is a fine idea, and I even did a survey a year or so back and found like 100 people would be willing to sign up I'm reticent, though, because I know what my coding-job and homesteading-lifestyle workload is, and don't want to make promises https://twitter.com/octal/status/1343619953426104321 …

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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          10/ I know that my fiction writing, all told, earns me a bit north of $15/hr. I haven't broken it down further. I can, tho... https://twitter.com/JacksonianDavis/status/1343622767145582592 …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          11/ I think that short stories like Staking a Claim take me maybe 4 days, plus half a day for my wife to make a cover? So 36 hours? Hmm, that's not bad - that means that shorts, integrated over, say, three years, earn me around $50/hr. Ah, but on the other hand, Firefly S2 >

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          12/ earned me $5 over the last 90 days, so $60 over three years, but perhaps half the writing time, so $3.33 / hr The Team earned me $65 over 90 days, so $22/hr. Caterpillar: $50/90 days, so $17/hr.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          13/ so, anyway, looks like Aristillus stories can earn me $20-50/hr. (Tho it takes 3 years to earn that money ... not going to bother with net present value calculations). Mmm... not terrible.

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

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          14/ hmm, maybe...https://twitter.com/furnaceop42/status/1343641256681992198 …

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          I think you might be estimating very conservatively by not taking into account some intangibles (that are realistically wild-ass-guessable though)...10 years from now you'll have 10x or 100x audience buying your first books and stories...
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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          15/ I've got a few Aristillus short stories I'm thinking about writing. One is about a small splinter colony that got left behind at the end of book 2, another is about George White, the PI. Maybe some back story re Ewoma's family getting to Ari from Nigeria.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Dec 2020

          16/ I'd kind of like to finish two half-written stories first, just to clear the decks: Timetraders #2, and Caterpillar #2. /shrug I dunno.

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