The Making of a Writer

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Now this I like. I thought the blue was a bit heavy. The new brown background lightens things up a bit, and adds a warmth that wasn’t there before. I like it!

Who do I write for? “You write for yourse–” Blahblahblah yeah whatever. Writing for myself is a journal. Writing for myself won’t put food on the table, at least not until I’m famous enough that people want to read my journals. Then I’ll probably be dead. Too late!

I’m talking about writing for paying markets. I walk into Barnes and Noble and think two things: “I sure miss the Tattered Cover,” and “Wow, there’s a whole lotta books and magazines in here. My ultimate chances of getting published can’t be that bad.” But then reports with lots of statistics come out about declining book sales, adults reading less and less, etc… and … well, all that. It can get discouraging.

But it also seems lots of folks are out there doing okay with writing, just of a different kind…

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I was about to write whine some more about how hard it is to get writing done because I have so many irons in the fire. And I keep adding more.

But that’s just making excuses.

I just have to decide what’s important I guess.

So I’ve changed the theme of the site. Hopefully that’ll fix the ugly problem I posted about a while ago. I haven’t tested it yet, though, because it’s late and I’m tired. But I didn’t fiddle with this theme’s appearances at all. It’s completely stock. Well, okay, I replaced the header image. But I used the dashboard control the theme’s author helpfully provided.

(By the way, you should go check out his themes. Along with his themes for sale, he’s got some beautiful free ones. In addition to the one I use on this site, I use another of his for a review blog.)

Let me know what you think!