{"id":471,"date":"2024-03-17T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/?p=471"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:32:44","slug":"terry-fallis-statement-ont-he-economics-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/2024\/03\/17\/terry-fallis-statement-ont-he-economics-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Fallis’ statement on the economics of writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/terryfallis\/p\/the-immutable-economics-of-writing?r=277cey&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Award-winning author Terry Fallis wrote the essay represented by the link above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terry is a successful writer, with multiple best-sellers, TV shows and awards to his credit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a fan of his work. He’s a funny guy, and quite approachable – a good fellow. He’s been in this race for a while. He is not wealthy. He has had other jobs to support his writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He writes because he wants to, loves to, needs to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go ahead – follow the link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite quote in Terry’s commentary is from Jack Rabinovitch, the late founder (and funder) of the Giller Prize: “For the price of a dinner in this town (Toronto) you can buy all the nominated books. So, eat at home and buy the books.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books are not THAT expensive – depending on how often you eat out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t write to win prizes – although it would be nice. I write to tell the stories that squirrel around in my head, scratching the inside of my brain trying to get out – most uncomfortable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written bestsellers – although I didn’t know they were important until I read what Terry wrote. And I have a decent body of work: 10 books, not counting 25 years of newspaper and magazine writing. I am quite surprised when I count it all up. So, why am I not wealthy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read what Terry Fallis wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If wealth was my aim, I should have followed the advice of my elders back when I was a teenager, and entered another field of endeavour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could be worse. I have a roof over my head, food on the table, as many worldly goods as I can handle (that is, as many as I have time to clean and store), and – importantly – lots of loving family and friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a place – and the time – to write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me, as a child, scanning the horizon for the pirates brandishing swords in the stories that were in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/terryfallis\/p\/the-immutable-economics-of-writing?r=277cey&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Award-winning author Terry Fallis wrote the essay represented by the link above. Terry is a successful writer, with multiple best-sellers, TV shows and awards to his credit. I am a fan of his work. He’s a funny guy, and quite approachable – a good fellow. He’s been in this race for a while. He… Continue reading Terry Fallis’ statement on the economics of writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[69,19,70],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-economics-of-writing","tag-monica-graham","tag-terry-fallis","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}