Larry Correia

Larry Correia has a great article[0] about where his money comes from. His backlist (previously published books) are his bread and butter. [0] https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/02/08/analyzing-my-royalties/

It's mostly on twitter or reddit. As a side-note another thing that bugs the shit out of me is when someone looks at my history to find a reason to disregard my comment. (Not accusing you of this by the way) "Oh I thought I was going to have to respond to you until I discovered you've posted somewhere I don't like." followed up by a flood of down-votes accusations of being a bot and sometimes a ban when I was posting legit content and previously with a very positive score. Happened to me twice last month. Once for bringing up the Code of Conduct on /r/linux. edit: here's a perfect example that made it into print and halfway around the world while the flawed reasoning and debunking has yet to gain traction. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927696/star-wars-the-last-jedi-ru… followed up by: https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-haters-were-n… http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/10/02/my-russian-bot-review-of-the…

It also assumes that big hits are the only ways for an author to make a living. I remember a blog where a fantasy author (https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/02/08/analyzing-my-royalties/) advocated the opposite - of focusing on series and creating a range of small royalty streams that pay the bills. The mindset is entirely different as it is much closer to treating the author's oeuvre as a portfolio of assets rather than looking for the one big hit.

Here's one qualified person's explaination: https://monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/23/an-opinion-on-gun-control-r… Edit: and let me just respond to one thing > You are making bad assumptions here I'm not just making assumptions. This is the conclusion I come to from reading firearms experts like the one I just linked, sociological analysis of gun ownership, use of force law, etc. I'm not saying a chaotic situation like that couldn't happen, but that can be prepared for, and the result would still be a significant net positive.

You're making a (large, most likely incorrect) assumption that 25% of a given town is made up of ra(p|c)ists. I suspect if you got down to it, you'd find it's most like 1% or less in the 'bad' areas, and the major difference of the makeup between 'rural' and 'coastal-urban' is that 1% in the rural area is incredibly vocal. See 'the three Cooters theory of Internet Discourse' https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters-theory-of…

Larry Correia says [1] that "ban" would not be the right word here, but what they were doing was effectively censoring his work. And the reason they did so, in the instant case, was because of politics. Period. [1] http://monsterhunternation.com/2016/02/10/left-wing-bias-in-publishing…

Being a full-time writer has always been a tough gig unless it is attached to an institution (but that can corrupt the writing). I'm not sure why anyone would think it wasn't tough. The author/poet/painter starving in a garret was a well known stereotype. Just like most of the arts there is a supply and demand imbalance; lots (claim to) want to write, only a few will actually write to completion, and only a few of those will have written something someone else wants to read. And that's before the traditional publishing funnel. On the other hand, I've known writers who make it work. Larry Correia has a lot of useful thoughts about it, he used to be an accountant before he got into writing and brings those skills to his analysis. eg. "Analyzing My Royalties" https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/02/08/analyzing-my-royalties/ he breaks down how the system works. Claims to be making Doctor/Lawyer level money as of 2022. I would like to see an analysis including "non-traditional" publishing options, and how different kinds of writing sell. I suspect genre fiction is different from "literary" from non-fiction, etc.

2024 is starting to feel a lot like 1968. I hope the Democratic convention in Chicago doesn't demonstrate history rhyming. Sometimes violence is necessary, but it should be the last resort. As Larry Correia (an SF/fantasy author and blogger) wrote six years ago (https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/11/19/the-2nd-amendment-is-obsole… "A friend of mine who is a political activist said something interesting the other day, and that was for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an off and on switch." I'd argue that the idea of violence being a knob isn't limited to the left, but strongly agree that it is in reality an off-on switch that one should think very hard about before flipping.