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"The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income.
Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen, or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying
alive while you write, and you write your heart out after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and, if they publish it,
maybe no one will read it."
- Ellen Gilchrist
Isn't it true, though. Why do we do it to ourselves? It would be so much easier to have a passion
for secretarial work, or plumbing. We have no choice, I think. But, at what point can you call yourself a writer? After you
have published something? Or, when you feel like a writer? When are you allowed to say, "I'm a writer,"
when asked what it is you do?
All I know is that if you want to be a writer, you have to write. Period. The bottom line is: there
is no market for blank pages. So, get at it, that's what I say, and worry about getting paid for it later. I think you just
have to be doing it anyways, and if you get paid for it, it's a bonus!
This site is going to be my personal quest in becoming a "writer." I doubt if anyone will even stumble
across it, so it's probably going to just be a nice distraction for me as I plug along.
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