I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.
I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.