This is so much easier than actually writing...

[f4f3]

"Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale's department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time." - Kurt Vonnegut

Comments

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

You're a pro, man! :D

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

My definition of a professional writer is someone who gets paid to write - which fits me, on and off, for the last 15 years or so...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Cool. Might I ask in what capacity you get paid to write?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Originally as a technical writer, training courses, advertising copywriting, company newsletters, manuals.... Whatever paid the bills. For the last few years mostly proposals of one sort or another, and whatever a communciations manager writes - briefs, press releases, stakeholder pieces.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Wow, cool.

It belatedly occurs to me that for much of the last six years, I've also been paid to write - but to do other things too.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've kind of interspersed account management, and consultancy, and a little bit of management when I couldn't avoid it. But I STILL describe myself as a writer...