If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do Something Else
Advice To A Young Writer
5 min readJan 20, 2021
“If you’re really serious about writing, do something else for a living.”
This is the advice I dispensed recently to a young, aspiring writer who had emailed me seeking guidance. Specifically, this writer wanted to know whether she should stay in her entry level magazine job in order to keep a foothold in…