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Stephanie Burgis
Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Ahaha *SOB* How to Become a Professional Writer https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-to-become-a-professional-writer

TBF, the paragraph about novelists doesn’t resonate as much for genre authors, but allll the rest is way too real!

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How to Become a Professional Writer

Do you enjoy writing? Do you like the idea of taking the thing you love doing the most in the world and turning it into work? So that your access t...
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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@stephanieburgis "A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins. Except the only thing you “win” is that you don’t have to go to law school."

So much this!

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