How I Make a Living as a Writer
All facts and numbers. This is how I make it work.
As a writer and artist this is probably one of the most common question people ask me when I first meet them. Can you make a living with this? How do you actually make it work? So if you’ve been wondering the same, here’s an extensive explanation, that perhaps inspires you, gives you a reality check or makes you think: thank god I have a 9-5 job and a secure pension. Who knows.
How it started?
Four years ago, on December 1st 2020, I launched Muse Letter Publishing, my own publishing company. At the beginning of the second lockdown and after the first successful crowdfunding campaign for my first book Things I Have Noticed, it seemed like a good idea. Though it is kind of an unusual path to take as a writer as the following will show, it sometimes is the only way to allow an artistic vision to actually come out the way it is intended. I had been self-employed before in Germany as a podcast host and producer for audible and a director and editor of a queer-femin…