03351nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-64206-7 DE-He213 20251030112902.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240821s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031642067 978-3-031-64206-7 10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7 doi HE1-9900 P87-96 KNT bicssc BUS070060 bisacsh KNT thema Williams, Christina. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82630 Work of Fiction [electronic resource] : Making a Living from Writing in the UK / by Christina Williams. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 227 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Creative Working Lives, 2662-4168 1: Introduction: the precarious work of diction writing -- 2: Theorizing the Writer as Cultural Worker.-3: Making a Living From Writing Fiction -- 4: Writing as Work and Not-Work -- 5: The Future-Orientation of Writers: hope and maybeness -- 6: Discourses of Writing -- 7: Conclusions. Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK explores the lived experiences of fiction writers in the UK and how they make a living. Based on a substantial body of interviews with a range of fiction writers, it considers the ways that writers think about and talk about writing as work and how ‘discourses of writing’ operate to support or undermine them as cultural workers. It argues that discourses of love, luck, magic, and ‘being a writer’ function in complex ways to position writers in enchanted and elevated spaces which both nurture their practice and undermine their status as remunerated workers in the creative sector. The book shows how the positives and negatives of often precarious cultural work are played out for fiction writers. It has implications for writers in the ways that they think about and talk about themselves as workers, and how the publishing industry values their contributions. Christina Williams is Research Fellow in Cultural Economies & Associate Lecturer in Media Communications at the University of West England, Bristol, UK. Communication and traffic. 67737 Creative writing. Cultural policy. 67609 Media Industries. 67740 Creative Writing. Cultural Policy and Politics. 67613 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031642050 Printed edition: 9783031642074 Printed edition: 9783031642081 Creative Working Lives, 2662-4168 69603 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 62607 62607