Check out this post from the Novelty Revisions Blog with 12 Reasons Writers Don’t Always Act Like They Love Their Jobs (But We Do!)
1. Not every writing job entails only writing. Like with any job, there are sometimes parts of their work a writer just doesn’t enjoy. Sometimes those parts become the majority of their day, and they just have to deal.
2. We mostly just get emails and tweets about typos and things we did wrong. We don’t often hear positive feedback. It’s there, but it’s not as frequent.
3. Everyone’s always asking us “when we’re going to publish a book.” They don’t ever ask how it’s going, or what the process is like, or how we’re feeling.
4. For some reason, people are mostly willing to compensate writers … just not with decent pay, and sometimes not even with money! Woo!
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Author Don Massenzio 