Why I'm Not a Writer by Lev Butts
In a recent article on Cracked.com , Gladstone claims that the third most popular lie told on social media is listing hobbies (such as writing) as vocations. He claims this is a lie unless said hobby allows you to "feed [your] kids and pay [your] bills and pay down [your] student loans doing nothing but writing outside of an established organization." At first, I had to agree with him and almost went to my Twitter account to change my description before something occurred to me. I found at least two problems with his reasoning: 1. By his definition, very few writers can describe themselves as writers. Richard Monaco, who as I've mentioned before , was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, no longer supports himself primarily through his writing. He still writes, he still sells novels, and he still receives the occasional royalty check from Parsival . They just don't bring in the amount of money they did in the 1980's. According to Gladstone's ar...