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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trad published novelist here.

If you are talking about being a fiction writer you'd already be writing. It doesn't matter what other people say you should be doing.

I can tell you after years as a novelist that success comes to those who cannot stop writing -- they have so much to say -- not to those who are the "best" or most talented writers.

So pretty much the opposite of your situation.

It's the internal drive to tell stories that makes a successful writer, not their grammatical skills or ability to communicate clearly. Of course that helps, but the fire has to come from within.

Let me tell you that there is SO MUCH REJECTION in writing professionally that if you don't love it, and are not very self-motivated, you will not last.[/quote]

I'm one of the PPs above who has been told to write because of my skills.  I think you are correct.  Yes, I dread criticism from the general public, but I also think that while I could write and be decent at it, I don't think I'd love it.  Because otherwise, I'd be doing it already.[/quote]

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