I'm sure it depends on what kind of writer you are. But earning a living with creative writing is almost always a struggle.
"Let me be blunt: Earning a living as a novelist is hard. I just sent out the September issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine this morning (only 9 days late!) and there I talked about the economics of fiction writing. A very few writers do stupendously well, earning millions of dollars per year. The top 1000 novelists make quite a good living at fiction writing. Everyone else struggles. They have a day job or a working spouse or an inheritance or they live in poverty."
http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/bl...-novelist/
What kind of writing do you do, Shell?
"Let me be blunt: Earning a living as a novelist is hard. I just sent out the September issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine this morning (only 9 days late!) and there I talked about the economics of fiction writing. A very few writers do stupendously well, earning millions of dollars per year. The top 1000 novelists make quite a good living at fiction writing. Everyone else struggles. They have a day job or a working spouse or an inheritance or they live in poverty."
http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/bl...-novelist/
What kind of writing do you do, Shell?
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.