For Playwrights, Making It to Midcareer Is a Cliffhanger
For me, it has been disorienting to spend most of my time writing without any promise of monetary rewards after a decade of getting paid for every single hour I worked.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
It seems it would follow that writers—so familiar with empty time and with being alone—should manage this situation better than most. Instead, in the first week I found out how much of my old life was about hiding from life. Confronted with the problem of life served neat, without distraction or adornment or superstructure, I had almost no idea of
... See moreZadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays
I remind myself of how we are all standing on the precipice of disaster, perfectly capable of losing a career and slipping into financial ruin overnight.
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
William Deresiewiczamazon.com“He was a generational talent who wrote something that has lasted till this day. And yet he spends all his time worrying about running out of logs for the fire or switching rooms to avoid his creditors.”
- How artists make (or beg for) money
Though they admire art and intellect, they find themselves living amidst commerce, or at least in that weird hybrid zone where creativity and commerce intersect.