hoopdedoo
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It's the same with any freelance/creative career. I went from being a freelance writer doing bits and bobs in my spare time to making six figures running a sustainable creative business in the same time that guest has managed to spend all her money and trash her reputation. I did it by just showing up, delivering consistently, building relationships, capitalizing on opportunities and constantly learning and improving, while also managing my mental and physical health issues. I don't say this to show off, and it wasn't easy, but just to show how it's possible to build a career from the kinds of things Guest does. It staggers me how badly she's fucked herself at every turn from the profile and opportunities she's had.
Guest probably counts rearranging her books to be shelved by spine colour and buying, I mean finding in a puddle, a massive desk as the kind of building-up work that you have done.
She reminds me of people I've encountered who've decided to fulfill their true destiny as a writer. They go out and buy all the fancy pens and notebooks, and then sit down and discover that writing well is really hard work. The world is not waiting with bated breath for mitherings about moths and woolen suns surrounded by chickens, and it certainly isn't going to pay to read them either.
And for most of those people - not Guest- the excuse of "they just don't understand my brilliance " stops working after a while.