The Ninja Writer is here to help. To aid you in determining the health of your career, we have come up with a quick guide. Here are: The Top Ten Signs Your Writing Career is Circling the Drain.
# 10. Your bar tab is bigger than your last royalty payment.
# 9. Your editor has just sent you an ad for culinary school.
# 8. Oprah’s show has called—to demand that you “cease and desist” from sending her copies of your novel.
# 7. Your latest gig: fortune cookies.
# 6. Your agent wants to borrow $100 for rent.
# 5. Your publishing company has just been the subject of a hostile take-over by Big Larry’s Plumbing Service.
# 4. Walmart has a special: Your book free with every purchase of flip-flops or beef jerky.
# 3. The only people at your last reading were two Japanese tourists who thought they were going to see “that guy on TV who sells Sham Wows.”
# 2. Publishers Weekly praises your latest book for its “deeply moving and profoundly powerful font.”
And the # 1 sign your writing career is circling the drain: Your Amazon sales rank has more digits than the distance to Pluto.
This must have been very fun to write, Jill! Now I want to write my own version, too!
Hope you are doing well!!
peace,
Nessa
I’m tempted to write a list, too. Apparently this has been very inspirational!