By Suzannah Freeman
Today’s post is written by writer, college teacher, indexer, and speaker Lisa Rivero. Thanks, Lisa!
Samuel Johnson famously said:
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
What most people don’t know is what his biographer James Boswell wrote immediately after the oft-cited quotation:
Numerous instances to refute this will occur to all who are versed in the history of literature.
“But all I do is write for free!” you might object.
Yes, we blog. We write guest posts. We send unsolicited articles or short stories to magazines that—if they pay at all—may do so only in contributors copies. We work on books for months or years at a time with no guarantee that they will ever earn... More...
