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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoHarlan Ellison once wrote about ‘fuck you’ money; the amount of money he [or anyone] needed in order to be able to survive without compromising themselves. Back in the day, if he sold one TV script he could keep survive for five or six months. That was back in the 1970s.
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Harlan Ellison once wrote about ‘fuck you’ money; the amount of money he [or anyone] needed in order to be able to survive without compromising themselves. Back in the day, if he sold one TV script he could keep survive for five or six months.
That was back in the 1970s.
And selling on script was no small feat then either