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D.L. Mayfield's avatar

I do love the rise in special interest writing--write about what you are passionate about! Become an expert who has insightful things to say! If someone just wants to be a “writer” that honestly tells me nothing (except maybe they have a very outdated idea of how writing/publishing works?)

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Sarah Styf's avatar

Yes, the future is bleak for writers, something I keep thinking as my 14-year-old expresses a desire to write for a living (and as she watches her mom write and write and make pennies on her writing). I was feeling pretty defeated about the fact that my desires to someday just write instead of teaching full time, and then reading Big Magic helped me to reframe the way I was looking at my writing "career" as I hit middle age. I realized that part of the reason I have so much to write about is because of my 20-year teaching career. I have travel to write about. I have parenting and 21 years of marriage to write about. I've lived life. I wish I could make more money writing about it, but I'm still writing because I NEED to write for myself, not to feed my family. I'm trying to live in this current heart and mind space.

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