writing

[maderr]

Do you know quickly I'd give up my plans for grad school and everything if I thought I could live off my writing? Growing up being a professional writer was like my dark secret growing up - the one I didn't think I could ever accomplish.

I only think of it because more and more I'm seeing people who are starting their own small publishing things. I'd love to do something like that, but I don't know that I have the accument to do it. That and I'm not certain my writing is quite that caliber - I think it could be, someday. But right not it's not, and I'd feel really bad just suddenly charging people to read my stuff (though if in some alternate universe I did do it, my lj buddies would be exempt b/c more than anyone you've encourage me in my writing).

I only thought of it b/c I'm moving my website, and converting each of my stories to an lj. As much as I like the academic world and all, I'd kill to just live on my writing. Ah, to dream.

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Don't make me kill you

[mashoogina.livejournal.com]

Here's the deal. You go to graduate school, you write academic crap for awhile and write other stuff on the side... get your ass published, endow a chair for me in Middle Eastern Studies (I'll allow you to name it after Commins if you'll think that's funny) and live happily ever after. :)

Re: Don't make me kill you

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a deal to me Queen. Besides, I could never give up my plans for Take Over Dickinson - and you still owe me an EAS Chair anyway.