I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.
My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.
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