Writing and Magic versus Writing and Money

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Jennifer Jackson links to two interesting places today, and I can't resist.

There's More than One Measure of Success as a Writer by Patrick Ness, suggesting that enjoyment alone is enough reason to write, and maybe unpublished writers are also writers?

and

Best Thing about Writing? Money by Allison Flood in which Colm Toibin suggests that his writing is all about cash, not enjoyment.

Hmmm...I suspect there's lots more to be said on this, and I suspect also that this is not a clear dichotomy.

I wrote a fairly long-winded response to Jennifer's original posting, and then realized that I should probably post that here for purposes of discussion, because it's a topic I find fascinating as an author, a former writer of a fairly popular fan fiction story, and an academic researcher.

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