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A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it:
teawitch:
mercedeslackeyblog:
This. So much this.
I’ve been saying this on Ouora for three years. If you want to be a writer it’s hard and you have to money coming in from someplace else.
This.
When I was going to writers conventions and particularly romance writers conventions, I was surprised to discover how many writers were middle-aged women with husbands who were doctors or lawyers. They were able to write because they had the time and space to do so.
I know writers who write full time. It’s often not the career we imagined when we were studying writing. Because it really isn’t writing full time. It’s running a full-time small business promoting, marketing, editing and handling financial arrangements for an author while trying to be a writer. It’s just that your both of those people.
Which doesn’t mean don’t writer. It just means that having a day job doesn’t make you a failure as a writer. Especially when you are a self-supporting writer.
A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it:
teawitch:
mercedeslackeyblog:
This. So much this.
I’ve been saying this on Ouora for three years. If you want to be a writer it’s hard and you have to money coming in from someplace else.
This.
When I was going to writers conventions and particularly romance writers conventions, I was surprised to discover how many writers were middle-aged women with husbands who were doctors or lawyers. They were able to write because they had the time and space to do so.
I know writers who write full time. It’s often not the career we imagined when we were studying writing. Because it really isn’t writing full time. It’s running a full-time small business promoting, marketing, editing and handling financial arrangements for an author while trying to be a writer. It’s just that your both of those people.
Which doesn’t mean don’t writer. It just means that having a day job doesn’t make you a failure as a writer. Especially when you are a self-supporting writer.