03106nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172050001100185072001600196072002300212072001500235100008900250245011100339250001800450264008500468300003300553336002600586337002600612338003600638347002400674490003900698505029000737520108801027650003802115650002202153650002802175650002902203650002202232650004102254710003402295773002602329776003602355776003602391776003602427830004602463856004602509912001402555912001402569999001702583978-3-031-64206-7DE-He21320251030112902.0cr nn 008mamaa240821s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316420679978-3-031-64206-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-64206-72doi 4aHE1-9900 4aP87-96 7aKNT2bicssc 7aBUS0700602bisacsh 7aKNT2thema1 aWilliams, Christina.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98263010aWork of Fictionh[electronic resource] :bMaking a Living from Writing in the UK /cby Christina Williams.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 227 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aCreative Working Lives,x2662-41680 a1: 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.  aWork 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. 0aCommunication and traffic.967737 0aCreative writing. 0aCultural policy.96760914aMedia Industries.96774024aCreative Writing.24aCultural Policy and Politics.9676132 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303164205008iPrinted edition:z978303164207408iPrinted edition:z9783031642081 0aCreative Working Lives,x2662-416896960340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c62607d62607