Writing and You: A Guide to Failure

So you want to be a writer. An author. An artist of words. A Lothario of literacy. Well I have a few things to say to all you aspiring bestsellers out there:

Don’t.

Creative writing is a pain of a hobby, even on the best of days. Fiction or poetry, every key-press and pen-stroke is to teeter on the edge of exhaustion. A dead-lift a plate over your limit forcing you to push yourself beyond what you thought capable and the only reward is sweat and soreness.

Writing is a chore I have failed to complete on innumerable occasions, so often that I have seen the ins and outs of what it takes….well, not what it takes to make it, but what it takes to take the first steps into the hobby and to avoid the pratfalls that may impede your early growth as a writer. And hopefully I can pass on pearls of wisdom in this series as I translate my fics into passable enough prose to begin posting them here as well.

Also someone please tell me what a lothario is i use the term a lot and I don’t really know what it means and im too scared to ask because apparently i use it correctly often enough for people not to complain about it