Yes, it's totally possible to be a skilled writer and make no money..... or very little money, from the craft.

I heard Jeff Steel comment that he writes 100 songs on average to get one of them cut on an artist's CD. And there's no guarantee that his song will be a single release vs CD filler. And he's got serious street cred. He said he still has to go head to head against the new writers and artists writing their own stuff for one of the 10 coveted slots on a given CD.

Nashville is filled with hundreds if not thousands of good writers. Very few will make it as a writer or an artist.


You can find my music at:
www.herbhartley.com
Add nothing that adds nothing to the music.
You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.