Is writing the worst artistic medium to try to make a living in?
The market is absolutely flooded due to the low barrier to entry, and demand is generally low. Who even reads books anymore? Why would they read books when video games and manga and movies exist?
Writing might have the worst supply/demand ratio of any of the arts.
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Visual arts are probably worse.
I’ve accepted that the only way I would be able to get any “readers” would be releasing it as an audio drama. People still consume books, but they only listen to them now.
>Visual arts are probably worse.
Probably not. A lot of people make money (not much, admittedly) selling their drawings, paintings, whatever, on t shirts or stickers or some other kind of printable merch on etsy, or by doing commissions. But there is basically no equivalent for writing.
>If you don’t consider journalism, then probably.
Most journalists make terrible money.
If you do visual arts you can make a bit of money by drawing weird porn for rich furries
*kisses too*
Novel tie in or light novel exist
There is no demand for English light novels.
Isn't that called YA fiction?
I would say LNs are usually YA fiction but YA fiction is not usually LNs
The YA market died not long after the harry potter film series ended.
It was always living off the spare drool of rowling's fanbase
If you don’t consider journalism, then probably.
*hands gun*
You're absolutely correct. So you should only enter this world if you have a burning desire to tell this specific story and you only have the means to tell it through a novel. If you have the skill to make a visual novel or an indie game or a low budget movie or even a web comic, you'll probably have a better shot of reaching an audience. But some of us, our only real talent is with words.
This is a reminder that Shakespeare was a playwright
>Is writing the worst artistic medium to try to make a living in?
Yes
Sell a tv screenplay to Netflix, those people seem to make anything regardless of quality
you could luck out and end up marrying a D-tier celebrity with money so when you divorce, you get your half of the money.
Have you watched a Netflix series? I’ve actually never seen one which wasn’t poorly produced progressive propaganda
I liked Lilyhammer.
Mindhunter was pretty fun.
Can't think of any other though, I don't watch many shows, less so on Netflix.
Bojack was the only well-written one, and it has the same problem as breaking bad where if you re-watch it as an older/mature adult you spend the entire time wanting the main character to die.
>I’ve actually never seen one which wasn’t poorly produced progressive propaganda
Better Call Saul is good and seemly doesn't fit your pattern.
Role's up
Trying to make a living as an artist is generally a bad idea. People that try to turn their art into their livelihood usually do it because they don't know how to do anything else, not because it is a planned career choice.
Here's what Ido Portal said:
>Working on stage, years ago, taught me a key thing: Most dancers don't dance, most actors don't act and most painters don't paint. Avoid making a living from the end result of your creativity, that stuff is not for sale, instead sell something else, anything else or just bake bread. The things I enjoy most in a creative process are not highlighted in anything that is driven by an aesthetic end result.
This sounds like either a cope from someone who couldn’t make it, or gatekeeping from someone who did and doesn’t want competition.
There’s a ridiculous number of people employed in the arts. Video game studios, movie studios, animation studios, they all employ hundreds of people. Unless you consider that stuff to just be “selling out”, and you think that someone only counts as a “real artist” if they’re a one-man show doing exactly what they want, when they want to. But that’s basically never been a reality, historically speaking. Shakespeare and Dickens wrote what they thought would sell. Bach and Mozart composed the type of music that their patrons wanted to here. Total autonomy is a fantasy, but gainful employment in the arts is a reality for many.
That's Ido Portal?
All artistic mediums have swallowed by corporations and the industrial world. Even the independent scene is tainted by this to a degree because publishers can easily co-op anything from it and make it more profitable or simply shoving in a creation of their in own without people noticing.
If you want to make money out of art you have to join a big name house and adhere to what they want because their priority is to sell a product, not to send someone's creation.
I've had two books published by a small indie publisher. One of them was shortlisted for an award. A get a small amount of sales every month but nowhere near enough to live on.
I have a day job in a seafood processing factory to keep myself and my family fed and housed. It's actually kind of good because it's mindless work and you wear hearing protection and don't really talk to anyone so i can be mentally far away thinking up new story ideas.
Where do I start with your work?
I've only got two books out so pick one.
I personally think the second one is better but that's just my opinion.
Will do, keep the faith
Thats in no way the real Hitler