Writing is not a career for the weak.
It comes with seemingly everlasting periods of writer’s block, glooming fits of self-doubt and often little recognition or remuneration in return for great dedication. Perhaps the biggest bother, though, is constantly having to defend who you are, what you write and why you write it.
For many people, because they know how to write, they carry an assumption that writing is easy. What they don’t realize, however, is that writing, the tool you learn in school and use to jot texts, refrigerator memos and the occasional letter, is quite a ways away from writing, what novelists, poets, journalists and others who connect words professionally do.
Today, hobbyists and professional writers got the chance to vent the everyday frustrations associated with writing on Twitter when the hashtag #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter began trending. Authors of best-selling novels, journalists and passionate just for fun-writers participated, and they pretty much covered all of the bases. As they tweeted, RTs, favorites and replies were all plentiful as the writers digitally bonded over their work problems—we’ll call it a
Here are a few of their tweets:
https://twitter.com/gabesingin/status/626040996279812096
THIS.
You're a writer? What a coincidence–I have a blog, too!#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) July 28, 2015
There is a bit of a difference.
https://twitter.com/AHintofMystery/status/626037715952340992
Not literally, but you get the picture.
https://twitter.com/kaliphyte/status/626040959449501696
https://twitter.com/ashposton/status/626014045242585094
This is just rude. Do people actually ask this?
https://twitter.com/JettimusMaximus/status/626030207674249216
"Writer's block doesn't exist. Get on with it." #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter
— Emma Gannon (@emmagannon) July 28, 2015
When I retire I'm going to write a book, too.#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter
— John Fox (@bookfox) July 28, 2015
#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter So? Are you still writing or are you working now?
— Karen Rock (@KarenRock5) July 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/LilyBaileyUK/status/626034454616764416
Writing = work.
https://twitter.com/PatrickWeekes/status/626068662160470016
https://twitter.com/imaginator1dx/status/626044687606910976
https://twitter.com/renireni/status/626042439577505792
#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter "That sounds like so much fun! Wish I could just sit around and write all day."
— Kat Kinsman (@kittenwithawhip) July 28, 2015
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