And when an author gets published and fully begins their publishing career, things don't get a lot easier.
Yes, if one is making enough money, one is able quit their day job and write full time, which sounds wonderful.
But it's also a lot of hard work, from sitting down and doing all the actual writing, to the editing and revising, then meeting with agents and editors and further revising, then copyediting and proof reading, then publication and all the PR associated with it, then the book tour, and during the publication and PR of the published novel, the author is already working on the next novel.
Brandon Sanderson is one of those authors who has worked very hard to get where he is, and as a result is a New York Times bestselling author and arguably one of the best fantasy writers in the business today.And there's not a day that goes by that Sanderson isn't thankful for this and feels that the people who made it happen are his readers, and his job is to keep writing and writing, because he loves to do it, but also because the readers want more books, and they are the ones who made him a bestselling author. On the writing podcast Writing Excuses Sanderson does with fellow friends and authors, Dan Wells (I am Not a Serial Killer), Howard Tayler (Schlock Mercenary comic series) and Mary Robinette Kowall (Shades of Milk and Honey), there have been numerous occasions over the years that the podcast has run where Sanderson has said exactly this.
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