Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Writing is a communication.
A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.