I only have this gig because I know a guy. I mean, I didn’t really deserve this, did I? All those writers they fired got canned for doing what they spent years and $ learning to do. Everything was great as long as I suppressed the obvious, logical fear that the demon A.I. My gig-load and pay tripled, and they started hinting at larger projects. It does adequate work for boilerplate articles about the firm’s work, it just can’t do keywords worth a damn. A month ago my guy called to say that the firm had just fired all of their other writers at once, and replaced them with ChatGPT. Then I’d spin up something more bombastic and snooty, and the owner would love it. My guy would show me whatever the professional writers had written. What a great six months! The firm I’m working for primarily helps victims of identity theft and inaccurate credit reporting. I feel like I’m pretty far behind many of you reading this. So anything that distinguishes me as an actual writer is unspeakably precious to me. I write hard, because I understand that it takes years to learn to write, and my supply is limited. ![]() I plighted my troth to the physical a long time ago, and I’m in my fifties. ![]() I need you to know what that meant to me. I was fairly psycho about it, and had all the goofy, commonplace assumptions about how plausible my ascension would be.Ĭouple of years of rewrites and queries after that, I’m minding my own business (I teach Pilates) and a friend calls me to say he’s bagged a job as the director of communications for a prestigious law firm. I’m the other thing, I started writing books one day, and learning how to write about two years later. You guys must all feast on those stories of writers in peripheral careers, who one day broke through and got published. ![]() Some of us were writing professionally before we got the bug. Being an aspiring novelist may be nothing else, but it is definitely a lifestyle. If you want to get published, you need to live it. We grow, we change, we adapt, and above all we try not to love our work too much. People like us are works in progress, we study what makes our writing and selves not only appealing to literary agents, but accessible to them as well. You are probably an aspiring writer, with your head at least partway in the game. If you’re reading this, we likely have a number of things in common.
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