So You Want To Be A Writer

Here is what I know.

Woman Operator on Monotype Keyboard, 1917. From The British Printer Vol. XXX. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd., London and Leicester, 1917]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

I went back and forth thirty times before deciding to write this. A lot of writers think of their jobs as some sort of mystical craft best discussed in hushe…