Build Your Writing Career, Your Way

by Shawndra Russell

Earlier this month when I read Dana’s blog post “Entrepreneurship and a Writing Life for the Rest of Us”, I got to thinking about the definition of writing career. To be a “real”, professional writer, do you have to:

have an article published in O, The Oprah Magazine?
have your novel published by a New York publisher?
make six figures?
attract 10 thousand unique visitors to your website each month?

Well, the beauty of building your own writing career is you get to design i...