Wednesday, June 17, 2009

For Love or Money

Here’s the thing. I want to write about the things I’m passionate about. I want to write for the publications I love. For the alternative press, for those small, savvy magazines that buck mainstream magazine formulas and somehow succeed. But a whole lot of those publications I want to write for don’t pay well, if at all.

Yes, I know I should be doing it for my love of writing, not my want for money.

But especially now that I'm freelancing full-time, those writing gigs I secure have to pay my bills. I have to eat. I enjoy traveling—and that’s expensive. I have to make a living.

So what’s an idealistic writer to do? What do you do?

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