Real Writers

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
~ Richard Bach


Writers, real writers, write...whether they ever get published or not. How exactly does that look, though? Does that mean real writers don't take breaks? Don't throw in the proverbial towel now and then? Don't chuck their pens at the wall and stomp their feet sometimes for months on end?


Nope. Doesn't mean that at all.


Sooner or later, every writer feels like quitting. It's part of the writing game. Rejection after rejection, waiting and waiting, seeing other less 'worthy' work get published while yours languishes...these things build up until you finally spew out, "I quit!"


But real writers don't mean they'll live and die in that state of non-production. A good temper tantrum now and then, a setting aside of the keyboard for a month or two, these kinds of quirks are normal.


And if nothing else, real writers are a quirky bunch