Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from

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18. When you realize that Jack London got paid between $ 10 and

$ 40 for any short stories he sold to a magazine back in the 1890's, and that sci fi magazines and others only paid the same amount exactly one hundred years later, you begin to realize the problem.

And of course, Jack London was not someone who was dealing with our age of super connections. Go to Yale, and one of your classmates may be in charge of this or that newspaper or magazine. So then you know them, and can avoid putting your writing "over the transom."

And there is not so much money for writing in terms of traditonal media. People who get grad degrees at prestigious journalism schools end up as spokespeople for this or that large corporation, as how else can they re-pay their student loans?