Itinerate writer talks of living, and dreaming, on $20,000 a year

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I am a perpetual stranger, moving to a new city every year.  I'm not a businessman, or an international superstar for that matter. I'm a writer. My average yearly income hovers just north of $20,000 and comes from waiting tables and manning the till at bookstores. I live on little. I plan and I save. ¶ When my itinerary was loosely designed six years ago, my main motivation was to gain greater life experience to inform my fiction. Much like people who save money to buy a house or to pay for their children's education, I budget to live a writer's life. ¶ Seattle will be my seventh city in seven years. I have never before set foot in this bastion of coffee and computers. I arrive with only a few contacts in my phone and a roommate whom I've met through e-mail and Facebook.  There is no work lined up for me, and my bank account holds just enough money to last me a couple of months before paying rent becomes a crisis. ¶ This is where you panic. This is where I get started.

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Robert Barnes 02 Oct, 2011

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