This is so heartening to read. I have been writing since I was 4 (for pleasure, not commercially), and while I have long cherished a dream of becoming an award-winning fiction writer, I think our heyday is long past, so I have built a decent career in marketing/advertising instead. But it feels good to know there is still a community of good people in what is a dying profession...
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This is so heartening to read. I have been writing since I was 4 (for pleasure, not commercially), and while I have long cherished a dream of becoming an award-winning fiction writer, I think our heyday is long past, so I have built a decent career in marketing/advertising instead. But it feels good to know there is still a community of good people in what is a dying profession...