I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.   Although it contains many sexual elements the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman in her late twenties trying to find who Erica Jong is and where Erica Jong is going. Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an M.