{"id":1181,"date":"2008-02-08T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2008-02-08T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T10:09:41","slug":"digital_livings_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/digital_livings_1\/","title":{"rendered":"digital livings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside our research for Arts Council England, I&#8217;m also looking at how how new media writers earn their livings and make their way in the world.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com\"><br \/>\nThe Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media<\/a> at De Montfort University is so innovative that there isn&#8217;t an obvious career path for its graduates nor an established group of successful role models for students to look to in the UK for inspiration. The <a href=\"http:\/\/nlabnetworks.typepad.com\/digital_livings\/\">Digital Livings<\/a> project is finding out how writers are carving out professional careers, starting with a survey of UK writers and expanding worldwide later in the year.<br \/>\nWhich skills do new media writers possess? Where do they sell their work? What advice do they have to offer those wishing to follow in their footsteps? Is the market for digital fiction growing or not?  I&#8217;ll report back on our findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside our research for Arts Council England, I&#8217;m also looking at how how new media writers earn their livings and make their way in the world. The Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University is so innovative that there isn&#8217;t an obvious career path for its graduates nor an established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600,1925,2042],"tags":[2881],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-uk","category-writing","tag-research-uk-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}