So You Want To Write Full-Time?

People often talk bad about teaching, saying that it zaps a person’s creativity. And I will admit that there are challenges. But taking that job at ETSU let me take a breath. I returned to the manuscripts and made the changes that I wanted to make for my own artistic reasons. My choices were motivated by my goals for the story, not the fact that I needed to eat. That I would lose my little condo. Or that I might have to nove in with my parents. (Horror of horrors!).

So this is why I urge writers to think long and hard before making their writing their primary source of income.