Most authors never hit the big time, but a great many to manage a solid and comfortable income from their writing, while the majority will always need to supplement their writing earnings with other jobs.

The Crafty Writer has added to figures released by The Times recently about how much average authors earn in the UK - and it will likely not surprise you that it is not a rosy picture. Most authors, it seems, earn a third of the UK average wage and two thirds of them therefore have to hold down additional jobs to continue writing.

Fiona Veitch Smith at The Crafty Writer, has some interesting experience to impart related directly to this issue. In her seventh year as a writer, she has experienced a noticeable increase in income, which she attributes to a number of specific factors outlined in her article: Can You Earn Money as a Writer?  The article is well worth the read as Fiona goes on to offer some practical to help you start earning as a writer, and provides a stack of links which you will almost certainly find useful.

Very few of us will shorten that ten years of graft and poverty to establish ourselves as writers, and many of us even then will not manage more than a low level income, but we don not do it for the money, right..?