The best things on my CV—the ones I almost want to use comic sans for, just so they’ll stand out—haven’t paid me.
In an essay for The Toast, Jilly Gagnon lays bare the realities of the writing life: handling 3,128 rejections, working a day job, and drying Mom’s tears when she sees the size of the apartment you can afford.
She perseveres because…well, she doesn’t want to say it’s a “calling,” but she does think it’s “brave,” “stupid,” and “really, really arrogant,” which sounds kind of like a calling to us.
