Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.