{"id":69,"date":"2012-08-27T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-08-27T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:46:10","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-writing-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/cory-doctorow-on-writing-for-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on writing for a living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting talk about who controls computers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/08\/23\/civilwar.html\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/08\/23\/civilwar.html<\/a>\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4436139\">HN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At around 51:30, there is an off-topic question from the audience, which leads to an great answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: What can you say about making a living writing things. Will you advise it?<\/p>\n<p>A: If you want to make a living writing things I would advise you to stop trying, because that is a bit like saying &#8220;I want to make a living buying lottery tickets&#8221;. Sounds like a If you don&#8217;t have a plan B for earning a living, you have the wrong career.\u00a0Writing is a very very high-risk entrepreneurial venture that almost\u00a0everyone who tries it fails at. Some people have succeeded using CC and some fraction without using CC,\u00a0but they are rounding errors against all the people who try to earn a living with writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch! I guess he is talking specifically about writing fiction. Textbooks are OK. I mean <em>somebody<\/em> has to teach people science. So I will keep going despite this advice.<\/p>\n<pre>\u25b7\u25b7   M A T H\nP H Y S I C S<\/pre>\n<p>I am thinking of de-emphasizing\u00a0\u00a0the &#8220;minireference&#8221; brand for the upcoming release. It just doesn&#8217;t tell that the product is an actual textbook-level coverage. Maybe we could have TUTORIALS in the title? &#8220;MATH and PHYSICS textbook&#8221;. Ok back to work now. 4 days left till launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting talk about who controls computers\u00a0http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/08\/23\/civilwar.html\u00a0via HN. At around 51:30, there is an off-topic question from the audience, which leads to an great answer: Q: What can you say about making a living writing things. Will you advise it? A: If you want to make a living writing things I would advise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}