Tetherscape on 4/5/2013 at 20:58
Attorney for income, writer for pleasure.
I wish I could write for income, but that is a difficult enterprise.
Ringwraith on 5/5/2013 at 02:37
I bang around in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio, trying to fix other people's messes.
HelloHello on 5/5/2013 at 08:31
Quote Posted by Tetherscape
Attorney for income, writer for pleasure.
I wish I could write for income, but that is a difficult enterprise.
My opinion on that, would be write for your audience and not yourself.
By the way, Al_B is going to come here and blast you with the double barrel for saying that.
Al_B on 5/5/2013 at 09:29
The only double barrel around here is your username and I'm more than a little tempted to change it to GoodbyeGoodbye.
Vasquez on 5/5/2013 at 09:33
Quote Posted by HelloHello
My opinion on that, would be write for your audience and not yourself.
You can't be a writer if you don't at least partly write for yourself.
june gloom on 5/5/2013 at 09:45
Quote Posted by Al_B
The only double barrel around here is your username and I'm more than a little tempted to change it to GoodbyeGoodbye.
i would not be averse to this
HelloHello on 5/5/2013 at 10:03
Don't sweat it, I'll just ban myself. I don't intend to be a regular here. :thumb:
Quote Posted by Vasquez
You can't be a writer if you don't at least partly write for yourself.
True, but if you're doing it for money, then writing is still a business like anything else. You have to serve the needs of the consumer first and foremost.
Vasquez on 5/5/2013 at 10:13
Journalistic writing, technical writing etc, of course. But fiction, the art of writing - that's not "business like anything else".
gunsmoke on 5/5/2013 at 17:00
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? I know I get excited to go to work. I actually had a guest last night (in the middle of 160 covers! We were slammed) come back to the kitchen and shake my hand and compliment my limoncello creme brulee. He said it was the most gorgeous presentation he had ever seen and that it was an 'edible work of artistic genius'.
My chef bought me a beer after work and said he'd never employed anyone in his 13 years with as much passion for his vision and gave me a FUCKING RAISE!!! I am so stoked. I hate to think too far forward and jinx the whole affair, but man, I could see myself working here as an old(er, HA!) man happy as hell to boot. I don't know anyone else who even remotely likes their job in real life.
Specter on 5/5/2013 at 18:09
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Does anyone else here absolutely love their job? I know I get excited to go to work.
Im certainly not happy with where I am career-wise, and dont know many people who are, but its really refreshing to see someone who is, and is reaping rewards for it! Good for you!
