If
you wrote 1,000 words per day, for two months straight, you’d have typed about
60,000 words -- enough for a book. If you took another three months to read,
revise, and edit it, you’d have four books and done in a calendar year. Some
writers are as prolific as this.
Do
it for a decade and you’d have 40 books. If each one nets you $10,000, you’d
have $400,000.Or; maybe one makes it big, and brings you $100,000 -- or even
more. So, maybe you can make an average of $50,000 per year from writing books.
Unless
you have a full time job or a spouse making decent coinage, it’s tough to
make a living off of words. But, millions of writers hack away in hopes of
making a breakthrough.
Why?
·
Because
they love to write.
·
Because
they are wildly optimistic.
·
Because
they are desperate and have no choice.
The
American Dream is embodied in the struggling writer, for he or she has hope, an
idea, and a passion -- and little else. The writer believes he or she can create
something original, beautiful, and important. Call it ego or just wishful
thinking, but want to be authors are driven to push ahead.
There
should be an honorary day for writers -- not just one for books or literacy. Just
for writers, published and unpublished. They make many sacrifices along the
road to string along a sequence of words that may just change a reader’s life.
We should honor the writer’s life and the writing process.
We
often pay homage to a great writer, such as Shakespeare, but we don’t seem to publicly
and demonstratively applaud the courage, energy, time, creativity, and passion
of those who dare to put their ideas, feelings, experiences, visions, and
desires into a digestible form for all to see.
It
takes discipline and mental toughness to be a prolific writer. You have to
block out a lot of noise, some of which comes from within the writer to
compete for his or her creative soul.
Most
writers enjoy what they do, can’t see themselves doing anything else, and find
the writing experience as natural as eating or sleeping. They have a deep,
insatiable hunger that can’t fully be met no matter how many pen and key strokes they make.
The
world’s story is still untold and unknown. Each writer wants to fill a piece of
the puzzle but the void is vast.
Writers
are pioneers and explorers. They map the future, record history, and
simultaneously attempt to capture and reflect reality while examining what
could, should, and will be.
Writers
deserve a day in their honor for giving so many of us a lifetime of real and
imagined experiences. Who is ready to celebrate?
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Brian Feinblum’s views, opinions, and ideas expressed in this blog
are his alone and not that of his employer, the nation’s largest book promoter.
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