(4) Don't Quit the Day Job
(4) DON'T QUIT THE DAY JOB: It takes ten years to become a writer ... I don't know why, it just does. DO NOT throw over your life one day and decide to move into a cabin in the woods to write our...
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LOL...Yes, I have heard it said over and again by my professors as well as other men and women who have a muse within, "If you are an artist, writer, poet, actor, or photographer you had better have...
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I can attest to this one. I work a regular job in advertising, spend time with the wife and kids when I get home, have to do housework, and then I can work on comic writing or game design. Did I...
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I'm struggleing with that at the moment too. It's hard to come home after pressing pants all day and then write. especcially with family pressures. (were coming up on the birthday season which is a...
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One of the solutions I found is to enroll in a night class of some discription (my particular poison is drawing). There are two main reasons why this a good thing:1) I always learn "something" I...
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I guess I dont have it so bad. My day and night job IS fantasy art. Course its not been that long since I was able to get into that position. But in the preceeding years I always had that hope of a...
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I know just how you feel. I have a full time job in marketing/advertising. I am not a full time writer, but I do design and run multiple campaigns for a group of friends and am an aspiring game...
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This is a really big problem for me. I have a full time job that seems to drain the life out of me every day. I don't get home until about 6.45pm and by the time I have had some food and so on, the...
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I heard something, either here or elsewhere I don't remember, and thought it was a good idea. In order to help writing students overcome the problem of "too much style" in their writing the proffesor...
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That's a good Idea, In fact it's the reason I bought a Palm Pilot. My only problem is sometimes it inspires me so much that I forget that I have a job to do.
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My day job is disappearing to India so I'm trying to write more now so I'll be ready when I have a lot of time on my hands like I did in 1997 when I was unemployed, underemployed and spending a lot of...
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