Thank you, Julian Barnes. Succinct account of what it’s like. In order to keep my children fed and clothed I was lucky enough to make a lot of cash from genre fiction. My heart is in theatre however and I know I can’t survive on that. Thank heavens my daughters have flown the nest and I can say, ‘yes, please,’ to £7,000 a year should I be so lucky. Even after our most destitute when my ex-husband left us with only the clothes we stood up in, I never thought of money. I’d say then that ‘blind faith’ is what every writer needs.
Yes, let everything else go hang!
Thank you, Julian Barnes. Succinct account of what it’s like. In order to keep my children fed and clothed I was lucky enough to make a lot of cash from genre fiction. My heart is in theatre however and I know I can’t survive on that. Thank heavens my daughters have flown the nest and I can say, ‘yes, please,’ to £7,000 a year should I be so lucky. Even after our most destitute when my ex-husband left us with only the clothes we stood up in, I never thought of money. I’d say then that ‘blind faith’ is what every writer needs.
"You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang,"
a wonderful insight - thank you Julian Barnes.