Tuesday, January 8, 2008

How To Make a Living Writing - Suddenly Christian

How To Make a Living Writing « Suddenly Christian: "How To Make a Living Writing January 6, 2008
Posted by John Shore in HowTo, Writing.
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Decide if you really want to make a living writing. If your primary interest in writing is to give expression to your innermost thoughts and feelings, and you don’t really care if anyone reads your stuff or not, that’s a beautiful thing. But if your goal is to have great numbers of people pay money in order to read what you write, that’s a whole other universe. Most people would say they only want to write for themselves, when what they really want is to be famous for the quality of their thoughts and the charm with which they’re expressed. Decide whether or not you want to be someone who writes personal journals, or someone who writes bestsellers." Read the complete post

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