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We have done a lot of talking about FREE! in the past couple of months. And I will continue to boycott Huffington Post , because I believe they’re parasites who’ve helped set this industry-wide trend that writers only need to be paid with “exposure.” Owned by AOL (a.k.a. Verizon) they have the ability to pay, just don’t want to and unless writers start valuing what they do? They won’t pay.
Ever.
Not until we GO PRO.
To catch up on the rant, read No More Literary Booty Calls.
But back to this “valuing what we do.” I feel one of the reasons the arts are particularly vulnerable to plundering is many writers (artists) have a chronic case of low self-esteem.
Yes, society and pop culture are partly to blame.
It seems movies cast only two types of writers—The Starving Hack…
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