Here’s what most folks don’t understand about the writer’s life: It doesn’t choose
you.You choose it. Too many people think being a writer is preordained. Like
you have to be born with an uncanny mastery over words to even earn the label
“writer.”
It follows that they’d think the writer’s life, complete
with money, freedom, and admiration, only comes to those preselected by fate.
I’m here to tell you, “NOPE!” That’s not it at all.
You have to choose this lifestyle … and there’s a lot more
to it than being able to string together clever sentences.


