What you are pointing towards, without quite saying it is that writing is becoming like the other arts - which have a vast area of unpaid work and a different paid area of work. To try and be more precise it is becoming like music, drama and photography. Where the unpaid sectors are vast and whilst known and under-acknowledged are ignored by the authorial inclined critical and publishing sectors. In our celebrity based public sphere, the public speaks of the canon of celebrity writers living and dead - just as they speak of beyounce, swift, dune, neitzsche (supply your own examples) whilst ignoring the unpaid sectors. What I am suggesting is that writing and i suspect reading are becoming like this... determined by the technological changes we are living within. The economics of writing that your understandably concerned with reflect this change, i think.
I think what’s hardest in our times isn’t that one needs another job than writing /making art but that those jobs aren’t what they once were! Even if one was to take inflation into account.
What you are pointing towards, without quite saying it is that writing is becoming like the other arts - which have a vast area of unpaid work and a different paid area of work. To try and be more precise it is becoming like music, drama and photography. Where the unpaid sectors are vast and whilst known and under-acknowledged are ignored by the authorial inclined critical and publishing sectors. In our celebrity based public sphere, the public speaks of the canon of celebrity writers living and dead - just as they speak of beyounce, swift, dune, neitzsche (supply your own examples) whilst ignoring the unpaid sectors. What I am suggesting is that writing and i suspect reading are becoming like this... determined by the technological changes we are living within. The economics of writing that your understandably concerned with reflect this change, i think.
I think what’s hardest in our times isn’t that one needs another job than writing /making art but that those jobs aren’t what they once were! Even if one was to take inflation into account.