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Writing for outlets isn't worth it anymore
The Author’s Guild reported that the average U.S. full-time author “earned a median annual income from writing-related activities of $23,329 in 2022, of which an average of $12,000 was from their books.” (The median American worker brings home an estimated $54,132 a year.)
Now if that doesn’t scare you off, I don’t know what could.
And I regret sayin... See more
Now if that doesn’t scare you off, I don’t know what could.
And I regret sayin... See more
This understanding of publishing, which suggests that rough-and-ready, quasi-automatic writing done on a regular, frequent schedule is ultimately more financially sustainable than refined and thoughtful writing published when necessary and appropriate, can seem counterintuitive, if not unbelievably cynical and depressing.
Matthew Yglesias • Matt Yglesias and the Secret of Blogging
In the wake of the Summer of Substack, the novelty of launching a newsletter where readers pay directly for your work has given way to the reality of, well, keeping that newsletter up. And keeping those readers happy. And finding new ones when, inevitably, some of those readers decide they’re kind of over you (nicely termed as “churn”). Inevitably,... See more
The Atlantic • A Good Newsletter Exit Strategy Is Hard to Find
Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.