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How to survive
It's not easy to survive as an author. Very few can do it solely for a living, and even those who do are constantly having to work on many different fronts to keep up.
Jeff Vandermeer knows this. Having been a writer for over twenty-five years, Jeff — whom I have previously blogged about here in relation to his wonderful guide to living the author's life Booklife — has in a recent blog of his own outlined some of the main things he's had to learn to survive. They're often funny, but all completely true:
Friendship is more important than career advancement. Even beyond the obvious reasons why you shouldn’t screw over your friends, the practical, cynical truth is that very few things that seem important at the time will turn out to be important over time. (I’m not someone who screws over friends anyway—it’s more that I get so busy, I wind up not having time for old friends as much as I should.)
Read the rest of Jeff's valuable tips here.
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Cloud atlas ...more
September 14, 2012
Soooo busy... ...more
August 15, 2012
On the subject of blurbs ...more
June 10, 2012
Cute fluff and true beauty ...more
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We have been delinquent... ...more
May 23, 2012
Where I answer questions no one asked ...more
March 26, 2012
Design Cities...on the west coast ...more
March 12, 2012
The dos and do not dos of author photos ...more
February 28, 2012
B is for Bukowski ...more
January 30, 2012
So much to do, so many distractions ...more
January 28, 2012
Musings from the Love Hotel ...more
January 25, 2012
Reading Challenge ...more
January 24, 2012
The Author Reading, or, How to Avoid the Super Monkey Death Car ...more
January 18, 2012
How to survive ...more
January 17, 2012
Rivalries ...more
January 11, 2012
Tweeting ...more
December 30, 2011
Attila the Hen ...more
December 30, 2011
Tree Tale ...more
December 21, 2011
Counting down... ...more
December 14, 2011
Blog Book Tours - the new frontier ...more
November 30, 2011
It's My Most Favourite Time of The Year ...more
November 28, 2011
A new day, a new week ...more
November 27, 2011
Fresh from the Salon ...more
November 24, 2011
The Mask of the Man ...more
November 23, 2011
I should be in Toronto... ...more
November 19, 2011
Read on ...more
November 18, 2011
Launch! ...more
November 17, 2011
Publicity ain't a one-person dance ...more
November 17, 2011
Strength and fluidity ...more
November 16, 2011
Thoughts turn to... writing? ...more
November 2, 2011
The Goose's Gregorian Gander ...more
November 4, 2001
Equaling the Degrees of Separation ...more