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• Bellinghman commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
  I'll quote Wikipedia: Median household income $3000 is below the US median. But not hugely so, and I note it's above the UK's (though the figures there are adjusted for purchasing power, so it's not quite apples and apples). And that assumes you're the only earner, too. So yes, $3000/month may be too little to live on in London or NY or Chicago, but for most of the rest of the world it looks fine....
• David L commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
  OK. Here was my thoughts. People doing pickup work for that pay rate could not live very well at all in the big media cities in the US. So they do it remotely. But to do that they'd likely have to have a very good rep. But how would the get that rep not living in the media cities? Anyway, $36K (gross before taxes) per year to live decently in the US not as a single means living outside of most urban area. Which gets to be hard because you'd need a car in most of these places. You'd be...
• Bellinghman commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
  The big media cities of the US? I strongly suspect from the internal clues that Mikka lives in Finland. I have a couple of friends who are full time writers. They'd love $3,000 per month, even between them rather than each. At the moment they're seriously looking at moving to Germany, somewhere closer to Munich and Hamburg which are the media cities in that country, and which are the bases of the companies they tend to work with. An awful lot can be done over the 'net these days. The first meetings, yes, you might want in person, but your...
• Bellinghman commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
  Oh, and answering the question "where do they get that rep" a little more directly: for some, the same place Erika James got hers. It might not work for everyone. Hell, it might not work for the majority of people. But it certainly works for enough. Meanwhile, the majority of the established writers I know couldn't afford to live in London, and most of the rest wouldn't....
• Greg vP commented on What's The Best Medium For A Storyteller In 2015 And Beyond?
  But again, the really big problem is distribution. Or, from the audience's POV, curation. Sturgeon's Law applies everywhere. Amazon's efforts at presenting things I might be interested in are the best of any of the major content distributors', and they're extremely bad. Apple's efforts are beyond bad; they're ... words fail me. Other efforts at curation are stymied by an expectation that the service be free, or for the paid services, the absence of any guarantee of independence or way of measuring "quality". Most people have not yet realised that relying on their networks or personal efforts is narrowing...