a predicament the primitives will never have to face

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Oh my.

I stumbled into the literary forum on Skins's island, in a fruitless attempt to find Gloria Swanson.

Tuesday Afternoon  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-22-09 11:21 AM
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What does it mean to you to be a professional writer?

ChicagoSuz219  (44 posts)        Wed Oct-28-09 05:08 PM
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1. When money changes hands... 

For me, it's the difference between the idea originating with me as opposed to being hired to write for someone else. I do the latter mainly to support the former...  A librarian once bought one of my children's books, then shook my hand & said, "It's so lovely to meet an author." It was a long time ago & it still makes me smile...

sybylla  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-29-09 10:27 AM
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2. Being able to treat it like a job

Money isn't part of the equation for me. It's the luxury of working an eight or ten hour day just writing. To me, that's being a professional writer. Selling a freelance article here or there just doesn't give me that sense. Commitment to the work does.

Yeah, yeah.

One's sure the Chicago sucks primitive and the syphilitic primitve were paid for anything they wrote.

[The Village Idiot]

So their the ones who write the classified ads for shortness