Anyone here write for a living?

[marty21]

No, but it's still my ambition to actually get one of my books published. Some day, marty, some day...

i'd like to get published again, it is nice having it "out there" even if it doesn't sell well

 

[kyser_soze]

I write for a living, but I don't get paid. All my writing is done on here, I don't get any money for it nor does it get paid any attention.

This, and it's making me increasingly bitter, especially when I see what passes for writing on CiF...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

If I could just become established enough to make an amount comparable to a reasonable-paying job, like say 15,000 a year, that would be very nice indeed. Then I'd just live in China on the money and live quite well and spend all my time writing and travelling.

 

[rennie]

Writing is a big part of my job. It's ok I suppose.

 

[JimW]

I'm a translator, mostly academic research and some literature plus odds and sods to make ends meet. Used to do a bit of journalism too but not much recently.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The largest part of my job is writing. In an average week I'll probably put out 50 - 75 pages of finished 'product', but I'm not a writer in the sense of someone writing literature.

 

[cybertect]

FWIW, I have a mate who's a screenwriter.

He doesn't recommend it.

 

[two sheds]

I had an article published in Potato Business World

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Why do you ask?

i must admit, this was the first thought that struck me.

i write and i have written. sometimes for good and so it goes.

 

[phildwyer]

I do. But what's your point? Do you have a question or are you just prying?

 

[clandestino]

I used to. I still do a bit here and there, but it's not my living any more.

 

[Bakunin]

I write and get paid for it, not enough to make it my full-time living, yet, but I've always enjoyed it and it beats any other job I've ever done.

 

[Limejuice]

I write for a living - feature articles, speeches, web sites, press releases. The usual suspects. I've ghostwritten books, but don't have any irons in the fire just now.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I think Cheesy is a journo.
I write reports and analyses, I have also written some nerdy articles for limited publication and some exam articles. Just as part of my job though.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Thread hijack: is UK Press Gazette still the place where experienced hacks and editors would go to look for a permanent berth?

As someone else said, it's web only now, but there aren't that many vacant positions around at the moment.

Try also journalism.co.uk and holdthefrontpage.(something or other? com? co.uk?) and Gorkana and Google Broadcast magazine, they have broadcast job ads.

Media Guardian tends to have the most journalism ads, I think, but you have to wade through all the annoying advertising space sales executive job ads, because they don't split the section into editorial and advertising sales, which they should do.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I had an article published in Potato Business World

Hasn't that been the featured publication on HIGNFY at some point?

 

[two sheds]

Hasn't that been the featured publication on HIGNFY at some point?

Not that I've seen and believe me i have always checked. I haven't seen any episodes recently, though and i'd thought the beloved pbw was long defunct RIP but I see it is now Potato Processing International.

I am thinking about a follow-up article, though, perhaps outlining why the things i suggested in my first article didn't work.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I've been paid to write reviews. Usually about £25 for 100 words. Only a couple of reviews every few months for work's magazine. Not any more now though, since I stopped working for them.