"When a tree falls, the monkeys scatter."--Chinese proverb Novelists don't make a lot of money. "Don't quit your day job" is oft-touted advice. I don't want my novelist "tree" to fall down, so I've decided to do some extra types of writing on the side. (This, by the way, also applies to retirement, as my UCLA professor once said. Instead of relying on a single source of income, like Social Security, you need to have other supports in place. Besides SS, his examples were: Pension/401K, … [Read more...]