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Earning a Living Via Your Art
Some thoughts on the various inherent challenges.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had a decent, albeit part-time, job. It allowed me some freedom to do more writing, but it still took up the majority of my day.
When the lockdown began, the job ended. Rather than lament this, I shifted my focus and attention and dove headfirst into writing more. A lot more. In 2020, I devoted a great deal of my time and effort to completing and publishing the books in my Void Incursion series, began plotting and writing my Forgotten Fodder series, and refined and published my standalone fantasy/Steampunk Novel, Infamy Ascending.
By the end of 2020, I’d published 3 books. In 2021, I published 6 books. With this, I launched into writing full-time and started to work with it as a means of earning a living. Since 2021, I’ve written and published 5 more books and will add another 2 before the end of 2025.
Earning a living via your art is not for the faint of heart. A lot of time, effort, and work go into this. Making the art is the easy part. Marketing and selling it, however, is a whole other ball of wax.
The authorpreneur
Yes, I’m the author of 17 self-published novels. The storytelling is my favorite part and brings me a lot of joy. But being…
