Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I was thinking of changing careers to become a writer but the Blue section represents an income of zerowhereas the $100,000 group is the sliver of Green. Odds not looking so good to be a paid professional. I think I’ll keep pelting Mitch with emails; he can publish what he likes and delete the rest.
The crazy thing about American copyright law is they assume nobody will write or sing or paint without guaranteed income from the performance. But my experience is you can’t stop people from writing and singing and painting, just for the pleasure of it. Sure, it’d be nice to make a few bucks to support the hobby, but artistic spirit is wholly unrelated to business management. Mitch couldn’t stop writing even if he had to pay out of his own pocket for the privilege of keeping up the website to post his writings. [Wait, he does? Well there you go, proves my point].
Which, by the way, is how I know Barak Obama didn’t write his own books. He’s not a writer. He’s a talker. A very good talker, yes, but oral storytelling is a completely different artistic ability from writing. Mitch can’t stop writing. Obama can’t stop talking. That’s just in their character.
And that makes me wonder . . . Hilary will be the next President. What’s in her character? What is it that she just can’t stop doing?
Joe Doakes
I was thinking of changing careers to become a writer but the Blue section represents an income of zerowhereas the $100,000 group is the sliver of Green. Odds not looking so good to be a paid professional. I think I’ll keep pelting Mitch with emails; he can publish what he likes and delete the rest.
The crazy thing about American copyright law is they assume nobody will write or sing or paint without guaranteed income from the performance. But my experience is you can’t stop people from writing and singing and painting, just for the pleasure of it. Sure, it’d be nice to make a few bucks to support the hobby, but artistic spirit is wholly unrelated to business management. Mitch couldn’t stop writing even if he had to pay out of his own pocket for the privilege of keeping up the website to post his writings. [Wait, he does? Well there you go, proves my point].
Which, by the way, is how I know Barak Obama didn’t write his own books. He’s not a writer. He’s a talker. A very good talker, yes, but oral storytelling is a completely different artistic ability from writing. Mitch can’t stop writing. Obama can’t stop talking. That’s just in their character.
And that makes me wonder . . . Hilary will be the next President. What’s in her character? What is it that she just can’t stop doing?
Joe Doakes
Oh, what difference does it make?