We could include practically everything Arthur C Clarke ever wrote, for a start.
After you write for a while, you may start to think about other things and write less and less.
I'll write for a couple of hours and then start crying for like half an hour.
"But the next time you pitch to a client, it's $850, and the next time, $1,000". If you hit a level where clients start to resist, you can consider freezing or reducing your rates until you've built up other income streams or increased your reputation in some other way (landing a marquee client, or starting to write for a prominent publication) that may justify a higher fee.
The temptation to over-write, for a start: "a scurf of petals drifting idly along the bank" – an editor could have blue-pencilled that idle "idly".
She started writing for a living after Oxford – first as a journalist, then as a novelist – and she never stopped.
Paul, however, is a bit more leisurely: he spends about 5 or 6 hours going over sources about a particular week in the war, writes for a few hours, and starts over the next day.
Krugman more or less abandoned scientific economics when he decided to start writing for a broader audience in the 1990s.
He started writing "for a joke", and almost inadvertently finished a novel, before someone suggested he try drama.
If he started writing for a newspaper, would his colleagues think he'd become a pseudo-economist, a former economist, a vapid policy entrepreneur like Lester Thurow?
