Thank you for your compliments , Gwirya.
I do understand what you are saying, and I can understand that some of what I could put into a publication may be of interest to some people. However, no matter which way we look at this question, there is no getting past the fact that writing takes time and is work.
If I do unpaid work by writing, it means I cannot do paid work, because I have used the time on unpaid work.
If I do not do paid work, my standard of living will suffer.
I'm sorry, but I am not the type of person who is prepared to starve in a garret in order to produce something that may or may not ever be published, and even if it were, the return from it would not be fair recompense for the work involved in producing it.
Time = money.
Work = money.
I need to be paid for time I spend working.
Regrettably I cannot look upon time spent in any serious writing as "hobby" time.
One small correction:- I have not lived in Jawa for longer than three months at a time. I have been visting Jawa for more years than I care to remember, and those visits have mostly been on the basis of once every six to twelve months, but I have never lived there on a permanent basis.
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