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Originally Posted by SelenaK
Because of my desire to succeed as a fiction novelist, I discovered my present occupation completely by circumstance.
Let's face it, as writers we have no choice but to learn how to get our names out there and I've met many writers who've stopped trying to be authors and now run successful businesses in other fields thanks to the promotional/management/organizational skills they picked up from their days as authors.
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That's an interesting point. I was a Brand Manager and my remit included all the verbal branding ie writing anything apearing in the public domain said by or about 'my' brand.
For me, it's always been about the writing so I find it truly amazing that anyone who managed to write for a living at any point could end up prefering to do something else. Then again... I can sort of understand it. I no longer work full time but even so, I would say that the percentage of my workload which involved writing in my Brand Manager's job was higher than the percentage of my workload now as an actual pukka author.
I am the ultimate techie. In an ideal world I'd be left alone in a room with my ideas and my computer for at least thirty five hours a week. That said, I'm not bad at marketing, or at least, corporate communications... whether I have any talent for bludgeoning people into parting with their cash for my work I've not been able to quantify. If I had more time to devote to my career, I'd have more of a clue.
Writing, for me, is like a bad crack habit. If I don't get a regular 'fix' I become very, very bad tempered and just a snadge insane. It's not always a pleasant addiction so more power to anyone who has managed to give it up.
Hmmm... I hope that makes sense.
Cheers
MTM