3344 Those who write for a living also work for minimum wage

or less. "It's a great story but hard to do. Everyone had an agenda and hardly anyone, I thought, completely told me the truth. Worst of all the story took me longer to research and write than any other story I've ever written. A teenage dropout flipping burgers at McDonalds wouldn't accept my hourly wage on this story." Read the whole story, Murder on the Last Turn. He blogs about writing it here.