Do you whine or improve?
Posted in advice, career, writing on July 5th, 2010 by scott – Be the first to comment
Time to take a trip down memory lane …
As you probably know, I’ve been writing professionally for quite a few years. In the early days, I gathered together quite the collection of rejection slips. Far more rejections than assignments, by a wide margin. It was, at times, disheartening but I soldiered on.
Over the years, I’ve met more than a couple of people trying to get their freelance writing careers off the ground. Most of them ran into the same problem that I encountered back in the early 1990s. And many of them continually lamented that they couldn’t get assignments or gigs, or get their unsolicited manuscripts published.
Earlier this year, I wrote a
I’m usually not one for marking anniversaries or epochs. But last week while at a conference, I was talking with another attendee and I happened to mention that I’d been writing professionally for 20 years.
Actors, artist, musicians, and writers all have one thing in common: when they’re starting out, many of them can’t make a living doing what they want to do. To pay the bills, they need to get the dreaded day job.