The world does not owe you anything, especially not a living

The writers that ultimately fail, falsely assume the world owes them something: a readership, a living, a degree of notoriety, etc.

As a writer who, starting out, had to scratch and claw his way onto the page –– who had to punch countless shifts working manual labor, who had to move back in with his parents for a time after college, who had to eat a whole lot of shitty, low-paying writing gigs for a while –– I can assure you this vocation doesn’t owe you, me or anyone anything.

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