It’s not the direct usefulness of it that I’m looking for so much as the ability to get money to promote the things that I want to see happen. I may not be able to program, and I might not be incredibly rational, but at least I can help the people that are.
I’m not very familiar with the details of writing fiction professionally, but it seems like the wrong thing to do if you’re looking to make money—I’m remembering hearing that a large proportion of authors aren’t very successful, financially. (The fact that I don’t remember where I heard this and so can’t gauge its credibility very well means that it should be discounted significantly.)
Can anyone who is more knowledgeable about the professional writing business comment on this?
I would say that nonfiction skill is obviously more useful, though I guess HPMoR provides some amount of evidence to the contrary.
It’s not the direct usefulness of it that I’m looking for so much as the ability to get money to promote the things that I want to see happen. I may not be able to program, and I might not be incredibly rational, but at least I can help the people that are.
Edit—please disregard this post
I’m not very familiar with the details of writing fiction professionally, but it seems like the wrong thing to do if you’re looking to make money—I’m remembering hearing that a large proportion of authors aren’t very successful, financially. (The fact that I don’t remember where I heard this and so can’t gauge its credibility very well means that it should be discounted significantly.)
Can anyone who is more knowledgeable about the professional writing business comment on this?