Writerland, Chapter 16: Can There Be Joy Without an Audience or Paycheck?
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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. I cannot write about the joy of writing without talking about publishing. Meaning, being published and being paid for having your work published. It is all well and good to write, to take pleasure in the work. But it is hard to feel joy unless your work is seen, and you are compensated. This sentiment is neither original nor new. As Samuel Johnson so famously put it centuries ago,
Writerland, Chapter 16: Can There Be Joy Without an Audience or Paycheck?
Writerland, Chapter 16: Can There Be Joy…
Writerland, Chapter 16: Can There Be Joy Without an Audience or Paycheck?
Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. I cannot write about the joy of writing without talking about publishing. Meaning, being published and being paid for having your work published. It is all well and good to write, to take pleasure in the work. But it is hard to feel joy unless your work is seen, and you are compensated. This sentiment is neither original nor new. As Samuel Johnson so famously put it centuries ago,