Unfortunately, there's elitism in all aspects of life, even the arts. But what matters is that when you're creating you're creating what YOU enjoy. It'll be pretty apparent if you're writing for others and the passion won't fill your work. It'll show. Trust me.
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As a skeptic of writing manuals I have to say three books have been very helpful for me in improving my writing and dissecting it more as a reader and one who critiques.
Read moreThe "Working" Writer
Artists aim to become a working artist--in my case a working writer. While I consider myself a "working" writer this term conflicts with the one posed at the beginning of this paragraph (notice the nice quotation marks).
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