{"id":302,"date":"2006-12-03T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/links-the-life-of-a-full-time-writer\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T15:21:19","slug":"links-the-life-of-a-full-time-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/links-the-life-of-a-full-time-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: The Life of a Full-Time Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various posts on the hard life of a full-time writer have been floating around (these are courtesy magicnoire<\/a>, I believe):<\/p>\n

Alison Kent has found a day job that seems to be ideal for a writer<\/a>, although I think the boredom would drive me insane.<\/p>\n

Tamara Siler Jones warns against taking a day job that involves writing<\/a> because it could kill a writer’s desire to keep writing when they get home. That’s a good thing to figure out for yourself – some of us are perfectly happy to write all day. Most writing day jobs I know of (I’ve tried two so far, reporter and technical writer) mostly involve other activities than writing. (There’s a reason it’s called reporting, frex.)<\/p>\n

I admit to being perplexed at some of these posts – not the ones above, but the topic does crop up from time to time – because they often seem to carry the message “It’s not easy! It’s not easy! It’s not easy!” and I am surprised that that message needs to be given out so many times and so stridently. I am surprised that so many people think having a full-time career as a fiction writer is easy. Maybe it’s because I didn’t start writing until I was in my mid-20s and immediately fell in with a good online group, so I never had that attitude myself. (I don’t expect to ever write fiction full-time, though I’ll jump at the chance if I get it – less time spent doing other writing = more time doing fiction.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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