Description: Writer in training; Family man; Brewer by day; Chef in a former life; Iowa Grad; Hedonist; Reader of books; Lover of the semicolon #BLM (he/him)
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I mean, really, who? With children, a spouse, a full time job, chores, etc… how can we be expected to take on what amounts to a second job to write? Hobbies aren’t a second job, but if you ever want to be a professional writer, you have to take your “hobby” and make a job out of it… killing it as a hobby.
I loved cooking, became a chef, and killed my hobby. I loved brewing, became a brewer, and killed my hobby. I’m not sure I “love” writing. I’m obviously not doing all that much of it in my free time, like I did with cooking and brewing. But I’m pretty good at it. I’d been thinking maybe it was a bright idea to take something I liked doing but didn’t necessarily love doing, and make a job out of that, because it would leave me with hobbies it was easier to build up momentum to do…
but while I think I have the chops to be a writer, I don’t have the will to fight the inertia, or the passion to basically take on another job.