Food for thought: Are you a professional writer?
Stephen Wilbers teaches business writing, and he says that he tells participants at his seminars that if they spend more than 50 percent of their working day writing, they are professional writers.
They may not think of themselves as professional writers, but if they are devoting 50 to 75 percent of their working hours to writing, then writing is their principal product. Hired writers is what they are.
It’s an important realization. It changes the way they think of themselves and how they assess their value to the organization that is paying them.
What about you? Are you, by this criteria, a professional writer? Does that change how you look at your job?
Here’s the article, by the way. (Requires registration. Sorry.)
Roy Jacobsen
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