(this pro writer thing isn’t just writing. There are page proofs, interviews, research, contracts, business nonsense, copy-edits. There is slush to read. There is Stuff. Stuff takes up a couple of hours a day. Every day. Some days it can take ALL DAY.)
and
continued creative output requires continuous creative input.
The Stuff can really mire you down. Particularly if, like me, you forget that it’s part and parcel of the whole career while you’re doing it, and think it doesn’t qualify as Real Work.
stuff? stuff? what stuff? oh yeah, the stuff I’ve been doing A:: DAY>
Baby, I hear ya!
Yeah, that Stuff. :)