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How to Become a Writer: Going From Hobby to Career

You need to see your writing time as the precious commodity it is—time taken away from family or sleep or other pursuits that clamor for your attention. Toni ...

How a Professor's One Piece of Advice Influenced My Entire Writing ...

I've known gifted writers who gave up after critical feedback. We are fragile souls we creators. There's parallel reasoning that can be drawn to ...

career | A Writer's Life

I like writing. I love those precious moments when you get in the zone and there's no effort, the words just pour onto the page. I like the intellectual ...

16 Harsh Truths About Your Writing You Don't Want to Hear but Must ...

Every writer faces this big problem and they don't realize · If you have less than a handful of comments, then the algorithm has shadowbanned you.

How I Stopped Sabotaging My Writing Goals: Confessions of a Late ...

Because we all tell ourselves—just do it, just go for it, just write the freakin' book! And yet even in the face of new resolve, our lives ( ...

The Harsh Truth About Beginning a Freelancing Career | by Samuel ...

What can you expect from a career as a freelance web developer in a couple of months or a year, even two? This article is not purposed to discourage anyone ...

A Successful Writing Career Starts with a Purposeful Writing Life

Like most writers, I had a hard time accepting, and then admitting, that writing was my true calling. Because of that, for far too long, I ...

Writers, This Horrible Truth Shall Set You Free - Nebo Agency

Hi there. Hey, hello. I know we just met, and I would hate to come off as rude, but I want to get straight to the point. If you're a writer ...

The 14 'harshest truths' people had to learn - Upworthy

1. Love doesn't conquer all · 2. Sometimes you can't win · 3. Hard work isn't always rewarded · 4. Don't fall in love with potential · 5. You can't make someone ...

Being a Writer Is Hard | HuffPost Women

There's also the embarrassingly horrid tendency to miss deadlines - especially if I'm writing about something that lacks... fire. We should also ...

John Steinbeck - Wikipedia

During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored ... The reaction of American literary critics was also harsh. The New York ...

Why Writing Success Remains Elusive for Many Writers

Writers need to realize that 99 percent of the time, they must “build” a writing career. It's not something that happens because you are chosen ...

The truth about writing is that almost nobody is 'successful'

People ask me all the time how my books are doing. They are well-intentioned and genuinely interested in my career. It's nice. But the question ...

The Hard Truth about Writing: Sometimes You Seriously Just Want ...

As a writer, this is when you have to dig deep to access your inner reserves. A superficially positive attitude isn't going to cut it.

6 HARSH TRUTHS ABOUT WHY YOUR RELATIONSHIPS KEEP ...

Sometimes we want something to work so badly that we disregard these signs. Think about what the early signs could be, write them down and a NO-NO list. (Hint: ...

Cultivating a Writing Life - Career Authors

I'm a nice midwestern boy at heart, and this one was hard to learn. Writing, and writing well, takes focus and dedication. Sometimes the voice ...

Changing careers might mean becoming a student again - EdSource

You can trust us to bring you the facts about what is happening next in education, every day. ... At 25, I was happy with my life as an actor. My ...

To feel inferior to other women | Mumsnet

I am not working at the moment, my last job was in news and the hours with my child and a lack of support didn't work. He is anxious about being ...

What Are the REAL Odds of Being a Successful Author?

I started writing in 1999. I sold my first book in 2014. That's a long time. You can make it if you work hard, learn hard, pray a lot, work ...

Robert Frost | Biography, Childhood, Poems, Books, Awards, & Facts

Meanwhile, Robert continued to labor on the poetic career he had begun in a small way during high school. ... All this while he was writing poems, ...