Paul Whybrow
Full Member
- Jun 20, 2015
You think writing's a dream job? It's more like a horror film, according to this article by Tim Lott :
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/20/tim-lott-life-as-an-author
The comments at the bottom of the article are worth reading (expand them), particularly the one about the 60% of people who want to be writers, imagining that it’s all J K Rowling easy-peasy wealth and celebrity. It wasn't for her, when she was trying to find a publisher for her first Harry Potter book, though fortunately that turned into a publishing juggernaut which will keep her for the rest of her days.
The John Dos Passos observation quoted made me snort : “Writers are like fleas, they get very little nourishment from one another”.
He plainly needed The Colony!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/20/tim-lott-life-as-an-author
The comments at the bottom of the article are worth reading (expand them), particularly the one about the 60% of people who want to be writers, imagining that it’s all J K Rowling easy-peasy wealth and celebrity. It wasn't for her, when she was trying to find a publisher for her first Harry Potter book, though fortunately that turned into a publishing juggernaut which will keep her for the rest of her days.
The John Dos Passos observation quoted made me snort : “Writers are like fleas, they get very little nourishment from one another”.
He plainly needed The Colony!
