My Five Easy Questions interview feature will return next week, but in the meantime, I'm reprinting the best writing advice I've collected at The Publishing Spot. Earlier this year, we spent some time with Nick Mamatas, the genre-bending novelist with a popular LiveJournal page. Mamatas spoke frankly about the writing lifestyle, discussing everything from school to health insurance:
"I'm a full-time writer. I'm going back to school so I can get an MFA at a low-residency program where I can write the stories and articles I would anyway, and get credit for them.Potentially, this can lead to a university job in two or three years.
"I do a lot of feature articles, which pay much better than fiction, and write educational copy as well, for standardized tests and that sort of thing. I certainly don't support myself all that well, and I have no health insurance. "Now if I did go balls-to-the-wall with getting corporate writing gigs, I could probably do a lot better, but what little fiction and interesting non-fiction I do manage to write would suffer. For now, I'd rather just live humbly."
If you have writing advice to contribute, drop me a line, and I'll in a future Greatest Hits post...
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