No, not me.
John Scalzi is a freelancer and Hugo-nominated novelist who says his writing earned him $164k last year. Because he’s just such a nice guy, he’s put together a lengthy - and quite good - list of tips for aspiring writers like me and, possibly, you. The advice ranges from the obvious (”Don’t have the cash for it? You can’t have it.”) to the finer points of refusing to undervalue your work, which as he says is surely worth more than three cents per word regardless of what your editor tells you.
Why am I offering this entirely unsolicited advice about money to new writers? Because it very often appears to me that regardless of how smart and clever and interesting and fun my fellow writers are on every other imaginable subject, when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps on crack. It’s not just writers — all creative people seem to have the “incredibly stupid with money” gene set for maximum expression — but since most of creative people I know are writers, they’re the nexus of money stupidity I have the most experience with. It makes me sad and also embarrasses the crap out of me; people as smart as writers are ought to know better.
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