From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/12/2014 04:53 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/12/14 4:27 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >> On 12/06/2014 11:19, mumble wrote:   
   >>> On 06/11/2014 09:24 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>>> On 11/06/2014 09:32, mumble wrote:   
   >>>>> On 06/09/2014 10:17 PM, Bill Swears wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:   
   >>>>>>> For a current WIP:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for more   
   >>>>>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no interfering   
   >>>>>>> with   
   >>>>>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> cd   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> A three book contract.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Contracts are muse-death.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes, dear, of course they are.   
   >>>> :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes honeybunch, they certainly are; compare having a contract which   
   >>> obligates you to grind out the words,   
   >   
   >      Here you show no actual knowledge of how this works.   
      
   Oh, my.  What I say in response is that if you are only allowed by your   
   family circumstances to write when you are making money from it, you   
   demonstrate a lack of understanding of how the real world works, you   
   remain captive to the idea that you must have an employer in order to   
   make money by doing what you have been told, even if you generated the   
   telling yourself.   
      
   By definition employers employ people, and people are never paid as much   
   as they have actually earned, because if they were there would be no   
   profit for the employer and thus no reason to continue the relationship   
   with the employee.   
      
   If you want to make money you have to invest your time in something you   
   believe in sufficiently to gamble on its success.  If you can't do that,   
   about the best you can do is be someone's employee.  They'll be glad to   
   dole out a pittance to the golden goose.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)