Have Courage

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place it leads."

~Erica Jong~

(c) Pamela Weatherill 2008

One for the freelance writers ....

You must be mad to want to write freelance as a career ... the work is hard and long and often boring ... less glamour than movies and TV would have you think. Yet somehow, mothlike, many of us return to the screen to face another day of writing, researching and running workshops.

Payment for doing what you love (or for writing something you loathed but the paying client wanted) is a common concern . I had to share this quote with fellow freelancers ... The writer Robert Benchley once said:

“The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps”.

(c) Pamela Weatherill 2008

The 'Good Enough' idea

Writers are inspired by many muses. Toni Morrison - a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature - has a really useful way of working out if you have a book idea or not:

"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

~Toni Morrison


(c) Pamela Weatherill 2008