For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
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You'd think it would be easier for writers to make a living, but it's not. Fortunately, I love to teach.
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.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.
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.
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.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
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