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2024-04-17 17:58:04

Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: It's always been hard to make a living as a writer, but in 2024, it's harder than ...

It's always been hard to make a living as a writer, but in 2024, it's harder than ever. Dirt has published this depressing but essential essay by David Hill, a union organizer turned author, on the grim reality of writing life. "At the time the National Writers Union was founded [in 1981], $1 a word was considered a bare-minimum rate for freelance writing ... Today it is no longer considered the floor, but a ceiling."

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