Treating Writing Like a Job, Because it is a Job.

When I first got into writing I treated it as a hobby (I was only in second grade lol). I think a lot of people still treat it as such. Something they do for fun. Writing is fun, but it's also hard work. You have to edit over and over again. You have to research. You can't just make someone a British solider without doing some research first. You have to sit at the computer, even when you don't want to, type out words until they make sense and then edit them. You have to force yourself to write when you have no inspiration. I remember an episode of Supernatural that featured Chuck. He said that writing was hard work and he would never pick that career on his own. I'm sure a lot of people didn't think about the comment, but writing is hard work. It is fun for a lot of people, but that just means you enjoy what you do. I enjoy writing, I don't enjoy editing. I enjoy making up new worlds and characters, but I do not view it as any less of a job. If anything, it's more work then my 'regular' job.

Writting apps

Above is a picture of the 'writing page' set up on my phone. I decided that I needed this set up, because I'm not always home when the urge to write hits. My phone's background features my cute min pins, in probably the only picture I have of them together facing the camera. The apps that I use the most on this set up are drive, dictionary, and thesaurus. I love the fact that I can write something in drive and it's automatically on my computer. The ones I use the least when writing are slacker radio and write. Write is basically just a blank white piece of paper that just keeps getting longer. I downloaded it before I downloaded drive, but I find that I like drive more, as I can add more pages and separate what I need to. Slacker radio is just horrible for writing. I used to use it a lot, before they got video ads that you actually have to click off or it won't play anymore music. I use it for the gym sometimes, but even then it's distracting. It's made me lose my train of thought while writing, and I am about to ditch it at the gym in favor of listening to Brandon Sanderson's class lectures. I also only use blogger every now and then. I prefer to write in my blog on my computer, but it's nice to have the option of writing on the go.