Comments on: Writing and risk, redux http://sararyan.com/2008/12/writing-and-risk-redux/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chau http://sararyan.com/2008/12/writing-and-risk-redux/#comment-6406 Chau Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:48:05 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=931#comment-6406 Hi Sara, Thank you for answering all of my questions through the blog! It is really wonderful to have such informative answers to my curiosities and questions. "Also, as a writer, you spend a lot of time in your own head, which is not always a pleasant locale." I really appreciate this line - it says a lot. Even as an amateur writer, I've learned that being in ones head and creating stories and fantasies are all wonderful - but when done too often, it can ostracize the world around you. It is especially disappointing when you wake up and not find dragons and fairies in your own world =) Hi Sara,

Thank you for answering all of my questions through the blog! It is really wonderful to have such informative answers to my curiosities and questions.

“Also, as a writer, you spend a lot of time in your own head, which is not always a pleasant locale.”

I really appreciate this line – it says a lot. Even as an amateur writer, I’ve learned that being in ones head and creating stories and fantasies are all wonderful – but when done too often, it can ostracize the world around you. It is especially disappointing when you wake up and not find dragons and fairies in your own world =)

]]> By: Sara http://sararyan.com/2008/12/writing-and-risk-redux/#comment-6405 Sara Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:00:24 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=931#comment-6405 Re: Financially safe - Being a writer is basically like owning your own business. You control your output. You are responsible for determining where your income will come from. If you can't make enough to live on with one project, you'll have to take on a few more. If times are slow, you'll have to market yourself and/or step up your output. I make a living as a writer because I combine several sources of writing income, from freelance advertising to a contract gig to novels. Is it "financially safe?" Oddly, I feel a bit safer now than I did when I was at a 9-5 job and subject to layoffs, etc. Perhaps I'll be singing a different tune at the end of 2009, what with the Current Economy and all, but something tells me more and more people are going to have to find ways to make their own income, so perhaps us writers won't seem like such odd birds. I will put in a pitch, though, for an improved health care system here in the old U.S. of A. If my husband weren't able to provide health benefits through his job, I'd be feeling a heck of a lot less safe, that's for sure! Re: Financially safe – Being a writer is basically like owning your own business. You control your output. You are responsible for determining where your income will come from. If you can’t make enough to live on with one project, you’ll have to take on a few more. If times are slow, you’ll have to market yourself and/or step up your output. I make a living as a writer because I combine several sources of writing income, from freelance advertising to a contract gig to novels. Is it “financially safe?” Oddly, I feel a bit safer now than I did when I was at a 9-5 job and subject to layoffs, etc. Perhaps I’ll be singing a different tune at the end of 2009, what with the Current Economy and all, but something tells me more and more people are going to have to find ways to make their own income, so perhaps us writers won’t seem like such odd birds. I will put in a pitch, though, for an improved health care system here in the old U.S. of A. If my husband weren’t able to provide health benefits through his job, I’d be feeling a heck of a lot less safe, that’s for sure!

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