{"id":2975,"date":"2006-02-24T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:29:47","slug":"book-report-the-wealthy-writer-by-michael-meanwell-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/book-report-the-wealthy-writer-by-michael-meanwell-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Wealthy Writer by Michael Meanwell (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1582973113\/ref=sr_11_1\/002-7482642-8653604?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> as part of the &#8220;You Get This Many Books and the <i>Writers Market<\/i> for $20 (plus shipping and handling&#8221; deal from Writer&#8217;s Digest Books, and since I&#8217;ve lost the receipt, I cannot amortize for you the exact cost of this book, but it probably wasn&#8217;t worth it to me.<\/p>\n<p>The cover and blurb say it&#8217;s <i>The Wealthy Writer: How to Earn a Six-Figure Income As a Freelance Writer (No Kidding!)<\/i>, but it&#8217;s really more <i>How to Run a Successful Business Whose Product Happens to Be Writing Services<\/i>.  Its chapters cover the business aspects of becoming a successful business writer, providing marketing copy for corporations.  While that is indeed a mechanism for making a living as a writer (and a comfortable living), it&#8217;s not really <i>writing<\/i> in the artistic sense.<\/p>\n<p>Because, face it, I made a living as a technical writer at one time, and it wasn&#8217;t ultimately satisfying in the creation sense of the word.  I&#8217;d hoped for some silver bullet of a book that would make me a disciplined writer who could sell stories and essays to magazines and books to publishers.  Instead, it&#8217;s the same hustle to make a buck, build a clientele, and whatnot that I&#8217;ve read dozens of times over in any small business owner book, but it&#8217;s recursive in nature because you&#8217;re doing the normal promotional pitching and marketing not only for yourself, but as someone who will do the same for clients.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps it&#8217;s a good primer if you&#8217;ve not read this sort of thing before, but I have.  Truth be told, I read a book in high school with a title like <i>How to Make $17,000 a Year as a Freelance Writer<\/i> ultimately geared to my particular jones which inspired me and encouraged me more than this book.  I should note, however, that neither have overcome my inertia and addiction to Sid Meier video games and simply reading to turn me into a writer who earns anything a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book as part of the &#8220;You Get This Many Books and the Writers Market for $20 (plus shipping and handling&#8221; deal from Writer&#8217;s Digest Books, and since I&#8217;ve lost the receipt, I cannot amortize for you the exact cost of this book, but it probably wasn&#8217;t worth it to me. The cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}