The Role of Faith (the Non-Religious Kind) in the Writing Life

Scratch Q2 2014 Faith

The latest issue of my magazine Scratch is now available! The theme is Faith. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you can read for free.

The Scratch Interview by Cheryl Strayed by Manjula Martin

In this revealing interview, New York Times bestseller Cheryl Strayed talks about success, artistic faith, and how to bounce a rent check while you’re on the bestseller list. A snippet:

I feel strongly that we’re only hurting ourselves as writers by being so secretive about money. There’s no other job in the world where you get your master’s degree in that field and you’re like, well, you might make zero or you might make $5 million! We don’t have any standards in that way, and we probably never will. There will always be such a wide range of what writers are paid, but at least we could give each other information.

Click here to read the full interview (you won’t be sorry, but you will be asked to register as a free user).

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[…] The latest issue of my magazine Scratch is now available! The theme is Faith. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you can read for free.  […]

JosephRatliff

As a subscriber to Jane’s Scratch magazine, I highly recommend it to anyone that reads this post.

It’s a very deep look at money, and making it. 🙂 About 90 printed pages an issue.

Jane Friedman

Thank you, Joseph. Much appreciate the kind words! 🙂

debra elramey

Would love to have read the article but found no success in creating an account. Got nowhere with it.

Jane Friedman

Sorry to hear that! Which article were you trying to access?

debra elramey

The interview with Cheryl Strayed.

Jane Friedman

Have no idea what the problem might be, but you’re welcome to download a PDF version here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3BkwFa5qpaIbGFDYUh4d044RDg/edit?usp=sharing

If there are other pieces you’d like to read, and you still can’t login as a user, don’t hesitate to contact our support team at support@29.io.

debra elramey

Thank you so much Jane. Great interview!