Surely, if there are two professions in which there should be no professional jealousy, they are prostitution and literature.
WIlliam Faulkner said this. Not sure why. Are both providing similar stimulation, although typically in different locations?
Every time I read a phrase I would really have liked to write, there is that little twinge. But on the balance, we are running a race against ourselves and our inner voice, aren’t we? So jealousy is pointless. Then we get to the publishing part, and need to act a little more like that other profession.
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Author: John Rogers
I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube.
I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.
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