Sunday, September 18, 2016

Is writing a hobby, art, business, vocation, or profession?


This question was raised in a Facebook group this week: if you’re not earning much from writing, does…
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Quenntis Ashby An important and thought provoking read.
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David Barry Temple “Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.”
— Tom Clancy
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David Barry Temple I write for an audience, a specific audience, a small audience, and one day, perhaps, find a publisher who caters to that small audience and will pay me to reach them. I see myself as an entertainer, too, here to entertain that small audience while they slug it through the bullshit of earning a living, as I did.