The average time an author spent writing BEFORE a sale is 11 years!
“And if you need to see that authors will write even with a full time job and no sales, look at Jim C Hines’s 2010 survey of novelists. The average time spent writing BEFORE a sale was 11 years! People worked all that time with no guarantee of payment, and with no income whatsoever from their novels. And you can also see that most of these people did not have many short story sales during this time, so they weren’t making their living as an author at all.”
Guilherme Vieira 3:39 pm on July 27, 2012 Permalink |
Hmmm.. yeah, but one could argue they’ve done that because they knew it would pay off later due to copyright in case their work was well-received. Of course, that’s not the case for me, and not the case for many others. But one could always argue some people wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t for copyright.
Personally, I think that line of reasoning comes from uncreative people who are too impressed when they are in control of a good idea and think they’ll never have another one like that. And that kind of reasoning somehow rubs off on who’s actually creative.
Hence I say, the greatest value is in the creativity, and not in what derives from it. People should be rewarded simply for their creative qualities, and not quite so for their creative works, since creative beings just keep creating because *creating is awesome, and feels great*. It’s their nature. That’s something I feel quite confident about.
Mushyrulez 6:29 pm on August 9, 2012 Permalink |
How does that have anything to do with profiting without copyright? That’s just not profiting >_>