Fifty Shades of Effort

Writers and entrepreneurs Tom Lowery and Cheryl Conner have written an informative and powerful article in FORBES magazine about what it takes to be a writer in today’s ever evolving publishing climate. Through interviewing several writers—I’m one of them—they reveal the inner workings of a writer’s driving force.

Writing is 5% talent and 95% hard work, and as award winning writer and publisher, Winslow Eliot, reminds us, it’s also highly competitive. Tom interviewed a number of writers for Huffington Post and discovered that “most writers – even those who write full time for a living – face a plethora of demons that cause them considerable grief.”

So why do we continue to write? Read the article and learn what fires our literary passion–