This income wasn’t from directly from book sales nor from my publisher. Rather it came from secondary uses of my work.

I want to tell you what we have learned so far. It will get worse before it gets better. Just because someone is being a dick, it doesn’t mean you should be a dick too.

Almost any piece of advice on being a writer will emphasise the need to develop a daily writing habit. This is an allocated time of day when you sit down and write for a set word count or a certain length of time. Famous authors credit a large part of their success to this habit.