alt Hacker NewsWriting professionally was basically gambling in the 19th century. An “advance” was a loan from your printer and you paid it back even if the book failed.
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nephihaha • yesterday at 11:08 PM
I was reading about 19th century Russian writers recently. Very few of them made much money and some like Turgenev and Tolstoy were personally wealthy.
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> Writing professionally was basically gambling in the 19th century.
Plus ça change...