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Making It through this difficult period as a writer

More often than not: the idea that you're crazy and should pursue a career that does not crush your pride and demolish your ego. You have the hope of glory and fortune to comfort you sometimes, but not often enough to keep your mind gnawing doubt.

Discouragement is a constant companion. You face discharges. You spend time, money and energy no guarantee of financial gain (and if you're published, you are facing discharge; spend time, money and energy without any guarantee of financial gain). You bear the looks of contempt for people in good health when you reveal that you are a writer. If you a literary author, you are regarded with fear, an author of genre, but is regarded with the same reverence as a stripper.

In times like these, leaving seems like a reasonable thing to do. I encourage you, if you're constantly depressed and along the madness. It is not worth your mental health and publishing is not an industry that cares about keeping you sane. Drinking can be common among writers, but it is certainly a temptation.

If you discharge to want to bang your head against the wall, writing is painful and the thought of another pool story crazy in your head makes you nauseous – Stop. Now. If you can not stop, there is help. Here are five reasons to be a writer:

You do not have to present your work. There is no requirement for a writer to share their work with editors and critics (Emily Dickinson is a good example), you can write for fun. If you do not want to publicize your work, you can self-publish. However, you do not need to be a published writer (I know I keep saying this, but I will continue to do so until what I thought). Validation is a great creation of God. Create, discover, enjoy! Be free. Write.

For immortality. When you die, there is a distinct possibility that your new works are discovered, it will be proclaimed a genius, your books will be translated into several languages both living and dead, turned into a movie every decade and inspire legions of writers who are writing and dark anyway. If you do not write, there will be nothing to discover.

Revenge. Remember that teachers who bloodied your beloved tests with red marks? This scathing critique partner with "helpful hints? This editor has insolent even bother to send a release form, but scrawled "No Thanks" to your query? Well, write to show the bastards! Strong emotions are a great motivation to write. Write to prove them wrong.

We need stories. Of course, literary snobs would beg to differ, literary thought is polluted by ignorant newcomers who have the audacity to write because they have the ability to type in their name.

Fortunately, I found their opinions as necessary as the foot of the athletes. Therefore, I implore you to tell your tales of your voice. No imitators please. He did not matter if your prose does not sound like jane austen, the echo, as Judge Cooper of California, below as mark twain, JK Rowling sing or stay Like Anne Lamott's. We need stories to survive. Help us.

You get to determine your success. Writing you can afford success large and small. The poem that brought a smile to the face of your friend, the test that has saved the first page of the newsletter, neighborhood the story that helped an adolescent alone through a difficult time, the novel that opened someone's mind to a new way of thinking.

Okay, so you can never hit the bestseller list, win a National Book Award or any case for this issue. Maybe the sky will know donations. You live a dream few people allow themselves to experience. They talk about writing – some very strong – but few do. The world bends those who proclaim that they are without excuse (okay it does not bend, but it does bow a little).

Because you should. This is reason enough me. I'm not a style or voice that many know and my job is not to record. There are times when I want to throw my hands and say "Enough! I Quit! "And the world sighs of relief, and I feel the sigh in control of my future. I get up from my desk determined to never return. Then a little voice said … "There was this woman who discovered she was married to the wrong person …"

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