Very few writers can actually live from their writing. Most write as a hobby and/or have another source of income. The differences in earnings are huge. At the one extreme are authors who earn almost nothing from their writing and perhaps even lose (for example, if the cost of research is taken into account); at the other extreme are authors like J. K. Rowling who have earned a lot by writing.
The pay
Very happy
No, he just intended to be a writer. He was in it to make a living not a reputation.
Nothing. He was a writer his whole life.
It won't.
Yes, a person can be considered a writer even if they have never been published. Being a writer is more about the act of writing than the act of being published. If someone regularly engages in the creative process of writing, they can certainly consider themselves a writer.
Of course she does.
Writership is the status of being a writer of a work.
Aristophanes is generally credited with being the first Greek writer of satirical comedy.
Similar jobs are being a writer for a news paper or being a millonnare :)
As much as someone is willing to pay for a bleeding love...
Stephanie Meyer had no intentions of being a writer. but she had a dream about the soon to be Bella and edward and that got her started