Rereading this and I'm going to bed to cry: "Ernest Hemingway was paid $1 a word in 1936. That's more than $21 per word in today's dollars. The maximum I was ever paid to write for a glossy magazine in print was $2/word, in 2021." defector.com/the-money-is...
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...
I have never been paid more than $1.50/word and I'm not even sure who pays more than that in today's market
When I tell you what I would do for a dollar a word.
I also fear that the point of AI is to eliminate writers and artists altogether so 100% of profit funnels upwards.
I’ve been paid in “exposure.”
Everyone chiming in that, "I am no hemingway," well duh I don't write fiction. I also didn't write the piece. Quote marks exist. The stated rate is for his REPORTING. And for context it is super common to be paid as little as .50 a word from your favorite fancy publications
Counterpoint: Ernest Hemingway was the Tom Cruise of his era.Counterpoint: Ernest Hemingway was the Tom Cruise of his era.
I used to have a film critic neighbor who would (under a pseudonym) do interviews for Us Magazine. She got $2/word and said it was the easiest work: "Just let them talk as long as they want."I used to have a film critic neighbor who would (under a pseudonym) do interviews for Us Magazine. She got $2/word and said it was the easiest work: "Just let them talk as long as they want."
suddenly it dawned on me how hemingway could afford that sparse prose.
It hits upon a contradiction I noticed living in the US years ago. People had bigger houses, cars and stuff than home in Norway. But everyone balanced on an edge economically in the US in a way we don’t in Norway. Your whole life can be so easily lost in the US.
I also wonder: how much longer did it take to write articles in longhand and manual typewriter vs. current tech? How much longer did it take to research when you didn't have online library cataloging or in some cases, phone access? Some aspects take as long or longer now but not all...