{"id":5200,"date":"2024-09-05T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/susanswanonline.com\/wpress\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:08:50","slug":"living-the-questions-how-do-writers-make-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanswanonline.com\/wpress\/living-the-questions-how-do-writers-make-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Questions: How Do Writers Make a Living?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This new series on the blog is inspired by the poet Ranier Maria Rilke, who wrote in a letter to a toiling poet: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A writer\u2019s life is filled with frustrations. There\u2019s writing and there\u2019s making money. How do you do both? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are a series of photos taken by Irene Grainger. The theme of the photographs is the frustrations of the writing life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The photos are by Irene Grainger, taken for a performance piece in the 1970s. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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About to pack it in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Packing it in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what others say: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/canada-authors-poorer-than-ever-says-study-1.4908086<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together<\/a><\/blockquote>