another farkin' list

Being a writer is terrifying.

Why?

1) Most people don’t care.

2) You make no money from it. Well, at least I don't...

3) You need to work a crappy non-writer-like job to pay the bills (more on this in a future post).

4) Most people don’t care PLUS hate whatever you write.

5) You spend way too much time feeling sorry for yourself.

6) You are generally alone. Physically, metaphorically, and existentially.

7) You have to resort to posting on blogs to make yourself feel better, and then you realize that STILL nobody cares.

8) Part 7 but whilst writing on your blog you begin to acknowledge the fact that not only are you poor, miserable, alone, and self-loathing, you are also a cliché, and that there are thousands - wait, make that MILLIONS - of people out there who have exactly the same thoughts as you do, at exactly the same time, and that this will inevitably show up in your generic script or film you churn out after years of torment and heartache.

9) You write lists that nobody will read.

Goodbye for now.