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What Writers Say vs. What They Mean

  Being a writer means you are inducted into this special program where you get to use this special language and euphemisms to sound really dedicated to your craft, and of course, smart.  Once you’ve announced that you are a writer, everyone will want to know the status of your current projects and what you do the entire day. The life of a writer makes people highly inquisitive and while they are in awe of your chosen career, they may not know the everyday hurdles a writer faces. And so, as a writer, you have no choice but to answer their curious questions with enigmatic replies.  If you’re not a writer and want to decipher what a writer is actually trying to say, here’s some helpful phrases:  1) What Writers say: "I'm brainstorming." What they mean: "I'm staring at the wall and hoping for divine intervention." It’s not easy being a writer and coming up with ideas all the time. There are good ones and extremely useless ones, and more often than not, writers ...

So You Finally Decided To Become A Writer. Really?

  Congratulations! You decided to become a writer and you know that is the best decision you ever made. Now everyone is going to think you are smart and expect you to know every word in the dictionary and also how to pronounce it properly. Soon enough you will find some of yohr family members and friends deciding to become a writer too because if you can do it, they can do it a lot better and easily. Every call or message you receive will be about your career choice. Sure, there will be some who will be in awe of you. They will expect you to know every word in the dictionary and even test you for it. Your general knowledge will be tested as well. Yes, this part has to be mentioned twice. You will find out for yourself just how true this is. Most importantly, you will be asked what you are working on. And that is where you are bound to find yourself stumped. What exactly are you working on? Fiction or nonfiction? Romance? Drama? Historical? Humor? Horror? Mystery or Thriller? By the...