Writing-Writing-Writing.
GRAMMAR QUESTION: Do you think this title is a straight noun or an abstract gerund noun, or even the present continuous form of the verb?

If you read it first as a gerund then you might be one of the people who fancy themselves to be 'a writer'. Would you like to be? Do you think you already are? If a writer earns their living from writing then I guess publishing our blogs every week or so doesnt make us writers. That said, there are some bloggers who do write with a bit of craft. PLease look at my links list....especially Nora.

Here's what waits for you if you want to earn a living writing books.
The market for every genre is flooded. The market is a market; if it doesnt appeal to a demographic that buys, then it doesn't get published. You need an agent to match you with a publisher and you will be rejected by many publishers. You can't only write what you enjoy writing - It is the opposite of writing for pleasure. You must be an artisan, untill you earn enough money to be an 'artist'.

I'm 32 now. I'll be 33 soon (suck it up Kalun) and while I spent my twenties writing selfish unsellable chapters now and again and forcing my good friends to read them and say nice things, I'm starting to feel like my eyes are wide open enough to try to write a novel...

So I'm going to seriously try. I want to have good motives. I want to have a realistic approach to it. I'm going to try to take an hour or two a day and force myself to sit in front of my PC and get from the beginning to an end of a novel. I've tried and failed before, but I feel a bit more grown up now than I was in my twenties. Lets see what happens. I'll report back in six months.