WRITE FOR AVOCATION, NOT VOCATION —“The research, commissioned by The Authors’

WRITE FOR AVOCATION, NOT VOCATION

—“The research, commissioned by The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, found the top 5 per cent of writers earned close to half of all the income received by professional authors in 2013. The median income for professional writers is just £10,432, less than the minimum wage. Technical and academic writers are among the worst paid.”—