Miserable pay, constant rejection, insufficient feedback on your work, nit-picky "bosses" giving out vague and unwieldy requirements...in any other profession, a company would go out of business because their "employees" would riot and/or find somewhere else to work.
With writing, though, it's the common accepted practice...
I'm not sure why writers put up with it, either...perhaps we're all a bunch of masochists?
Creativity takes courage. -- Henri Matisse
ReplyDeleteWriting is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler
Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon
The coroner will find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys. ~C. Astrid Weber
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
Does any of this help??? LOL!
Nancy
So, writers are bloodthirsty in addition to being masochists?
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