Personally, I’m going to try to make it work as a writer. But if I don’t, I’m just going to get a job again and I’m going to write on the side. That to me feels like being an adult. I don’t think the world is unfair to me for forcing me to create enterprise value. I can create some enterprise value, and my enterprise value will subsidize me for... See more

The whole time I was practicing to be a writer, I always had a day job. Even after I got published, I didn’t quit my day job, just to be on the safe side. In fact, I didn’t quit my day job (or my day jobs, I should say) until I had already written three books—and those three books were all published by major houses and were all reviewed nicely in

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