When Did Writers Become Second Class Citizens?

Originally posted on Love's Last Refuge:

This isn���t exactly a rant. It���s more a question, a puzzle I���ve been trying to solve for quite some time.

Fresh off a writer���s conference, I���m pumped and discouraged, and elated and despairing, assured and unsure��� Whatever gamut of emotions that���s intimately tied to ego and self-expression, there���s nothing quite like several days of advice panels to make me realize how much and how little I know.

And that���s neither good nor bad, it���s just the nature of the beast, the perks of joining a community of content creators (who used to be called ���artists��� before commercialization, product placements, and the endless pressure to quantify the self in pursuit of a vision of success that���s tied to monetary worth alone).

As a writer I wear many hats, not all of them associated with the physical act of getting isolated words parsed into some coherence that forms the core of a���

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