Dear Dead Beat,
Is it reasonable to expect to earn a living from writing - or is it really a past time for most people?
Old Timer.
Dear Old Timer, I will answer the first part of the question second and the second part first (Dead Beat is beginning to sound like Chico here - "the party of the first part...")
For many people writing is a past time and that's fine. If you take it seriously however, it is anything but. And no, Dead Beat is not saying anything about writing being a vocation since that is a load of nonsense (as the notion of any profession being a vocation is) and will ultimately backfire upon the misdirected writer. Writing requires that you give it your all - D. B. has no time for shoddy work.
As for the first part of the question - "Is it reasonable to expect to earn a living from writing?" - the answer is short, No.
In fact, Dead Beat will tell you, it is the most unreasonable notion that will ever flit into the consciousness of any human being... more unreasonable than writing being a vocation even.
p.s. the great thing about writing is that Old Timers make for better writers.
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