Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
Writing is a lonely profession.
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.