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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 9117336" data-attributes="member: 2303"><p>I'm retired for health reasons. I did some hobby level writing and my experiences very much match what is aid here. Since I have a pension I was never dependent on this pay, so I could put may more hours into these projects than the pay merited. I realize this makes it harder for those who do try to making a living this way. Its a harsh world.</p><p></p><p>I got 1, 2, 3, and 4 cents a word from different publishers. The reviews didn't really change what I was paid, but the length of time I had been with a publisher did earn me more pay. What I found to be most rewarding to do was to be an editor/developer. A book by other authors from my publisher got 1-star reviews, so I got the job to rewrite it, developing the concept, making it rules compliant (this was PH1), and improving the language. I got the 1-star review into a 4-star IIR. This was great fun to do! I also wrote some things to order, such as a book about ducks as a PC race. What i found least rewarding, but still good fun, was publishing my own campaign rules, mainly archetypes, again to Pathfinder 1.</p><p></p><p>I did write for Trailseeker, but my attempts to get in touch with En5ider have failed. My experience with Trailseeker was that because of the short length, what I wrote for Trailseeker often ended up as a sketch for something I would later develop more fully for other publishers, maybe a year later-</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 9117336, member: 2303"] I'm retired for health reasons. I did some hobby level writing and my experiences very much match what is aid here. Since I have a pension I was never dependent on this pay, so I could put may more hours into these projects than the pay merited. I realize this makes it harder for those who do try to making a living this way. Its a harsh world. I got 1, 2, 3, and 4 cents a word from different publishers. The reviews didn't really change what I was paid, but the length of time I had been with a publisher did earn me more pay. What I found to be most rewarding to do was to be an editor/developer. A book by other authors from my publisher got 1-star reviews, so I got the job to rewrite it, developing the concept, making it rules compliant (this was PH1), and improving the language. I got the 1-star review into a 4-star IIR. This was great fun to do! I also wrote some things to order, such as a book about ducks as a PC race. What i found least rewarding, but still good fun, was publishing my own campaign rules, mainly archetypes, again to Pathfinder 1. I did write for Trailseeker, but my attempts to get in touch with En5ider have failed. My experience with Trailseeker was that because of the short length, what I wrote for Trailseeker often ended up as a sketch for something I would later develop more fully for other publishers, maybe a year later- [/QUOTE]
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