The payment is in the publishing - that’s what I learned to say as a young, eager writer, suddenly the envy of some friends because a handful of publications were running reviews and columns with my name at the top or bottom of the text. Just as there’s (generally) no such thing as overnight success in the industry I write about - I too had toiled away …
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