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who keeps telling kids they can make a living from writing, it's like the cruel post-adolescent version of the tooth fairy

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last time I was among a roomful of writers, about half had book projects that they wanted to sell eventually

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the way they described it, it sounded fundamentally stressful, so many concessions to make (genre, length, …)

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mostly, it reinforced my decision not to enter the market but to simply do my own thing

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interesting tidbit btw, that room was 80/20% F/M while the hacker con it was embedded in was more 20/80