JA WestenbergI've been a professional writer for over a decade and it still amazes me how many folks are CONVINCED they can just do this shit. Nobody walks up to a surgeon and says "I reckon I could have a crack at that." But writing? Everyone's got a world-changing essay in them apparently. It's in there. Somewhere. Behind the spleen.
Phil Wolff@Daojoan Writing is hard. Being a writer is harder. Persistence, even when you don't want to write. Loneliness. Precarity. Fighting precarity. Sucking at something until you don't. Whipping off slung mud. Most folks quit the trade before mastering the craft.