This: "I want to be so good at my craft, that you joyfully get swept away in my words and excitedly use them as an escape when they’re published."
I feel the same way about my writing. Do I want to get paid for it? Sure. But I want my words to matter to people and influence them the way other writers have influenced me.
Yesss. That’s the level I’m talking to: the people who’d write whether they’d get paid or not because it’s just in them and they WANT to make an impact whether that a quote that sticks with them forever or brings a smile or chuckle to someone’s day.
Definitely the goal.
Getting paid enough to contribute to financial independence would be AWESOME! But wouldn’t stop me from writing in the meantime at all!
This: "I want to be so good at my craft, that you joyfully get swept away in my words and excitedly use them as an escape when they’re published."
I feel the same way about my writing. Do I want to get paid for it? Sure. But I want my words to matter to people and influence them the way other writers have influenced me.
Yesss. That’s the level I’m talking to: the people who’d write whether they’d get paid or not because it’s just in them and they WANT to make an impact whether that a quote that sticks with them forever or brings a smile or chuckle to someone’s day.
Definitely the goal.
Getting paid enough to contribute to financial independence would be AWESOME! But wouldn’t stop me from writing in the meantime at all!
Same, although it does help to justify the time I spend writing to my family 😉