<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloff</author><text>My brother writes Sci Fi for a living. He&amp;#x27;s self taught and self published. He does well, he&amp;#x27;s sold over a million books. What many people don&amp;#x27;t know is he suffered from severe tendonitis that really narrowed his career options. He started writing because he could write using voice recognition software. Now he writes with a keyboard, as the pain is more manageable. I&amp;#x27;m extremely proud of him for how well he&amp;#x27;s been able to carve out his own path in life, in the developing world, against adversity.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Jasper-T.-Scott&amp;#x2F;e&amp;#x2F;B00B7A2CT4%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Jasper-T.-Scott&amp;#x2F;e&amp;#x2F;B00B7A2CT4%3Fref=db...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience writing and selling a short story</title><url>https://superamit.substack.com/p/short-stories-how-much-do-you-make</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that Tor&amp;#x27;s pay for authors is in the absolute top tier. I&amp;#x27;ve had a short story published in a smaller publication, and they paid me $50 total - $25 for the first six months exclusivity, then $25 again for inclusion in an anthology. That is more typical for a starting out author.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, getting published in Tor at all is a much much bigger achievement - congratulations to the author!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My experience writing and selling a short story</title><url>https://superamit.substack.com/p/short-stories-how-much-do-you-make</url></story>