Eight Pretty Good Reasons to Write (and Three Not-So-Good Ones)
There was a time when every journalist starting out got some version of the fire-in-the-belly speech from his or her editor. The speech went like this: Writing’s a tough game, kid. The pay’s as short as the hours are long. The world doesn’t give a crap about your deathless prose. So if you don’t have the fire in the belly—if you’d just as soon spend your days as a lawyer or a doctor or a mechanic—do yourself and the rest of humanity a favor and decide writing’s not for you before you file another story. Mine was delivered by my… Read more...
