Who writes full-time?

[Benjamin Sobieck]

Who on Crimespace writes full-time? I'm very part-time, and consider myself lucky to have a complete product to send to agents/editors.

It seems most work a full-time job outside their novel ambitions. I'm one of them, although I work in magazine/book publishing (not related to crime fiction).

So who on Crimespace is blessed enough to write full-time?

[Ingrid Schmitz]

Hi Benjamin,

No, I have no outside job. I'm a full-time writer since 2000. And I'm lucky to do this. So my writing-day looks like the working-day in the past, no, it's harder. At 6'o clock in the morning I look at my mails, write till midday - short break - then writing till 16:00 h, if my husband comes back. ;-))

Hope I've understand your question correctly.

best wishes
Ingrid

[Stuart MacBride]

I shall hold my hand up to being a full-timer too. It's a strange way to make a living, just writing crime novels and nothing else, but it's better than some of the jobs I used to do...

[Sunny Frazier]

Me.

But I had to quit my job at the sheriff's dept to take care of a dying father, then survive my sister poisoning me (cat flea medicine, don't trust it, folk. I'm one kidney down).

Yes, I love my freedom to write and I'm the envy of my writer's group, but at what cost?

[Benjamin Sobieck]

The cost? Your kidney apparently. Sounds like you've got some character material, especially with your experience at the county.