Film Courage: How long has writing been your full-time job?
Andrew Warren, Author: I would say writing novels specifically was probably only my full-time job for about two years because the indie author world it’s very dependent on output to the point where when I say I write 2,000 words a day that actually would probably be considered fairly slow for most independent authors. There are people out there that write 5,000-10,000 words a day. I just didn’t want to go that route, I just didn’t enjoy doing that when I would work for that long. The pain pleasure balance just wasn’t there for me, so I’ve diversified my income streams a little bit. I do receive income from my books but I also do freelance copywriting on the side. Sometimes if a cool post supervisor gig comes up I’ll take that. I recently post supervised an interactive movie that was really interesting to me on a technical level. I also have some screenplays that have been optioned and that are being shopped around so for me it worked best to diversify what I was doing. I think I mentioned this before but when you are a full-time author and that is your only income it is a lot of pressure and I found that although it was really cool and really exciting when things were going well. When things weren’t going well it was again easy to get discouraged if you’re not careful and I just found that pressure…I didn’t enjoy writing under those conditions. I actually enjoy writing more now because it’s not the only thing I’m depending on.
Film Courage: Did you think that would be the case?
Andrew: I didn’t. I was really excited to go full time with it and I was surprised when I realized that…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Andrew Warren is the international best-selling author of the Thomas Caine thriller series. Andrew also writes the space fantasy series Tales of Talon under the pen name of A.A. Warren. Andrew was born in New Jersey, and studied film and English at the University of Miami. He has over a decade of experience in the television and motion picture industry, where he has worked as a post production supervisor, story producer, and writer. He currently lives in Southern California.
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