A writing career is like a pangolin driving a semi truck through a taco bell. Everyone is very impressed, but no one stops to think how many fortunes had to align to make that happen.
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When I read someone say that every writer dreams of their work being adapted for Film or TV, I roll my eyes. Writers dreams of being published, of finding readers and keeping them, of being given the space to write the books they want... everything else is just icing.
- some writers have day jobs - some don't - some writers have a lot of money - some struggle to stay afloat - some writers get huge advances or can live off royalties - some writers aren't there yet Money doesn't make a writer a good or bad person or a good or bad writer.
if you are a young writer, or an old writer, or a “I’m not sure if I’m a writer” writer: keep writing. keep reading. keep exploring. keep going to museums and playing and painting and singing and re-imagining the world. please.
There is absolutely zero way to predict how your creative career will go. You could be read by a producer and get a movie tomorrow. You could hit it big 10 years from now. No one knows. The anxiety, of course, comes from the fact that it's hard to plan a future around something no one knows anything…