Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.