This new series on the blog is inspired by the poet Ranier Maria Rilke, who wrote in a letter to a toiling poet:
“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
A writer’s life is filled with frustrations. There’s writing and there’s making money. How do you do both?
One year I earned $160,000 from a book to film deal and not a cent the next. I made the writing life work by having one reliable source of income and freelancing the rest.
Below are a series of photos taken by Irene Grainger. The theme of the photographs is the frustrations of the writing life.
Here’s what others say:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-authors-poorer-than-ever-says-study-1.4908086