Not good, people, not good. The general gist of things? Contrary to what language instructors everywhere say, there is so much good, smart writing available on the web, the idea of being a ‘professional writer’ may become like being a professional typist: i.e. it’s a valuable skill, but no-one is ever going to make a living doing just that; rather, it will form part of a broader set of skills that people who used to call themselves ‘writers’ will use to pay the rent or feed an insatiable addiction to Canadian microbrewery beer (seriously, Cameron’s, why don’t we just set up a direct link to my bank account?).
Though it’s worth pointing out that these links are focused on non-fiction writing, I’m still too depressed about this to put any coherent thoughts down on SiW. Still – there’s a good discussion going on here with my pals at Snarkmarket, which was started by mutual Scrawled-Market friend Rex all the way over… here.
