Wow, by those standards there aren't that many writers around at all! Makes you wonder where all those books on Amazon come from. There must be a lot of hobbyists out there. And there aren't many painters, composers, dancers, musicians or actors either.
It's a weird attitude, as if writing is nothing more than a job. Artists have always had to balance their creative work with work that will put food on the table and buy shoes for the baby. If they were really lucky they had a patron or a relative to support them.
Don't let the bastards get you down! If you write, you're a writer. It's just a matter of degree how much of a part of someone's life "being a writer" is. A sliding scale from genuinely "hobbyist" and not interested in anything else, and full-time writer making their living from it. But if you write at all you're somewhere on that scale.
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Date: 2012-01-24 06:54 am (UTC)It's a weird attitude, as if writing is nothing more than a job. Artists have always had to balance their creative work with work that will put food on the table and buy shoes for the baby. If they were really lucky they had a patron or a relative to support them.
Don't let the bastards get you down! If you write, you're a writer. It's just a matter of degree how much of a part of someone's life "being a writer" is. A sliding scale from genuinely "hobbyist" and not interested in anything else, and full-time writer making their living from it. But if you write at all you're somewhere on that scale.