You're a writer? Really? Page 3

Quote: Pete @ November 21 2008, 2:47 PM GMT

To be fair to the "people" if you don't make money doing it (and aren't already rich) then it's just a hobby you want to turn into a profession and have, statistically, little hope of ever doing so.

You can't blame them for being puzzled.....if people said to me what do you do, you're a financial consultant aren't you? and i said....well, not really...i'm actually a parrot breeder, right now i've only got one but he's horny as hell i've a budgie on order and i'm on this forum.........

The only people i tell that i write are other finacial consultants......doing "art" for little money is like telling the KKK that you think Beyonce is pretty hot.

Should add...those like Griff who are starting to rock the dream are stuck....you have to just own up

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I always say I'm a comedy writer, with a lucrative hobby as a social worker.

But I think that makes me look a bit of a dick.

We can all be what we want to be.

Quote: Marc P @ November 21 2008, 2:53 PM GMT

If you want to get your script off the ground you should probably go for a pilot.

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Won't that just get me arrested and banned from airports?

Quote: Bad dog @ November 21 2008, 2:52 PM GMT

Imagine if you wrote some crap like Eastenders or Two Pints. Then if people asked what I did for a living, I'd have to lie & say I'm a dustman.

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then you've missed the point.....most people would regard writing Eastenders as a pretty cool job (irrespective of what they thought of it) You may need to lie on here, but not down the pub.

Quote: sootyj @ November 21 2008, 3:03 PM GMT

I We can all be what we want to be.

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It's a nice idea but page 1 of this thread was people saying they darent tell anyone and page 2 was based around ways to shut up people you have told.

I know a lot of writers, actors, artists who work in bars or teach TEFL.

But it's as artists and performers they define themselves.

It's all about being in the gutter and reaching for the stars.

Quote: Pete @ November 21 2008, 3:06 PM GMT

It's a nice idea but page 1 of this thread was people saying they darent tell anyone and page 2 was based around ways to shut up people you have told.

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Yeah, but sequels are always over-rated.

Quote: Marc P @ November 21 2008, 2:53 PM GMT

If you want to get your script off the ground you should probably go for a pilot.

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Funnily enough, I AM a pilot that just wrote a pilot. Maybe I should take my script flying tomorrow??

Quote: Pete @ November 21 2008, 3:06 PM GMT

then you've missed the point.....most people would regard writing Eastenders as a pretty cool job (irrespective of what they thought of it) You may need to lie on here, but not down the pub.

It's a nice idea but page 1 of this thread was people saying they darent tell anyone and page 2 was based around ways to shut up people you have told.

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Not telling people and not daring to tell people is quite different.

Quote: Marc P @ November 21 2008, 3:11 PM GMT

Not telling people and not daring to tell people is quite different.

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True, but "not telling people" and "not telling people because they dont get it/make you sad/it's like HIV" is also quite different

Quote: Pete @ November 21 2008, 3:06 PM GMT

It's a nice idea but page 1 of this thread was people saying they darent tell anyone and page 2 was based around ways to shut up people you have told.

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What can I say, like a smelly rambler I walk my own path.

Quote: Blobster @ November 21 2008, 3:10 PM GMT

Funnily enough, I AM a pilot that just wrote a pilot. Maybe I should take my script flying tomorrow??

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Interesting job alert!

Tell us more Mr Blobster.

Well, I am a flight instructor in my "spare" time.... small aircraft - Pipers and Cessnas - plus I am a sales Demo pilot in the Northeast for Liberty Aircraft - they make a cool 2-seater the XL2...(see www.libertyaircraft.com).. my "real" job is more boring - I run a group of 110 technicians for a telecom company.... I write during what's left of my time... thanks for the interest Sooty!!

Quote: Blobster @ November 21 2008, 3:32 PM GMT

Well, I am a flight instructor in my "spare" time.... small aircraft - Pipers and Cessnas - plus I am a sales Demo pilot in the Northeast for Liberty Aircraft - they make a cool 2-seater the XL2...(see www.libertyaircraft.com).. my "real" job is more boring - I run a group of 110 technicians for a telecom company.... I write during what's left of my time... thanks for the interest Sooty!!

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The flying stuff sounds fun.

I don't tell people I write anymore I don't do it enough, I've changed from I'm a writer to I write a bit in my spare time.

Sad day the first time I said that

Quote: Blobster @ November 21 2008, 3:32 PM GMT

Well, I am a flight instructor in my "spare" time.... small aircraft - Pipers and Cessnas - plus I am a sales Demo pilot in the Northeast for Liberty Aircraft - they make a cool 2-seater the XL2...(see www.libertyaircraft.com).. my "real" job is more boring - I run a group of 110 technicians for a telecom company.... I write during what's left of my time... thanks for the interest Sooty!!

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Wow sounds like a way cool life.

mmmmmmmm well since this book writing thing happened folks wondered about me prior anyway so now that I have sought early retirement they really wonder.

They just figure I am dealing drugs or hooking........ or maybe they think I have me a nice big ol sugar daddy somewhere. I love the suspense of wonderment.

You're an author?

Stick up your details, one of us may even buy a copy.

Quote: sootyj @ November 21 2008, 3:57 PM GMT

Wow sounds like a way cool life.

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Unless you fly for an airline, you can't really make money flying - it's almost as bad as trying to subsist on writing alone. Hence my real job. My dream was to fly for a major airline, work half the month, make a ton of dough and write the other half and during the stopovers .... oh well.