Can get confused about writing I think, as have been confused and realized wanted to talk to others about areas of confusion about writing.
Like, wrote an open source program years ago, and eventually started this blog to help promote and support it. So am I a writer?
Wrote code for computers, and write blog posts as well as much other but consider myself to be a wannabe writer as do NOT make money from my writing.
But what if I wrote songs? Would I think of myself as a wannabe songwriter?
People say writer and I was indoctrinated to think fiction writer who actually has made money with a book that has sold well.
That is messed up folks.
Writing built human civilization and continues to build, like with code I wrote that lead me to create this blog. Is not about money and MOST writing is not fiction.
So why the emphasis on fiction? To tell people that being a writer is hard and that few can survive at it. So just leave writing to the special people society blesses with money for pleasing it.
Because writing is the most powerful tool available to human beings in general.
Thankfully, I wrote open source and my code to help Java developers write code--is still mine.
Coders have had writing they exchanged for a salary to people who can barely code who made BILLIONS from it. But we were told--being a writer is hard. Better to have a boss, be told what to do, when to do it, and where to do it, for all of your adult life until you can retire. Then put out to pasture then you can rest.
Were taught to behave. Were taught to be controllable.
Because writing is very powerful and writing is key to human civilization.
So I talk songwriters. Sure, is hard to make money as one for many, but do they exchange their songs for a salary? I think jingle writers do.
Two occupations are afflicted with giving writing in exchange for some money: press and software developers.
Some small group got billions on code handed to them for a salary. Got billions and wasted billions while acting like were geniuses.
Others pushed our species to brink of extinction controlling press writers with salaries.
Were young occupations where modern versions emerged in 20th century. Are very young compared to songwriting. Press writing and writing computer code were ruthlessly exploited because people did not know better.
Was lack of experience made seem reasonable to hand writing away. Songwriters do not.
Owning my own writing now makes sense to me. Will not accept foolishness that I should hand away to anyone.
Am like a songwriter now. Writing songs is as old as humanity while writing them down is only as old as human civilization.
Because writing built human civilization.
