Working in a writing industry is weird, especially when in your head writing is something that cannot be tainted or how should I better put it unholy or impure is a better term instead of tainted. Ya ya I understand economics and how every art form can be screwed when a purpose bigger than artists perception gets involved in it, but certain things gets ingrained into your head since childhood, like the fact that reading is a good habit and the once who write have a certain acceptance into the world we live in. BTW the last line is true, it is totally cool to call yourself a writer, just that once you do it a first few times you start feeling a tinge of guilt in your head and then your reply to the question “what do you do for living”? changes from “ I am a technical writer” (even though you are not an actual technical writer as becoming one of those demands at least 6 months experience and you are just 3 months old in the industry; plus technical writing is totally boring I would pick my job over it any day) to “ I write physics for a company, don’t get this wrong I work mostly as a typist only”.
Monday, November 30, 2009
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