The Writing Life: Do You Have What It Takes?

The Writing Life is a primer on how to make a freelance writing career for yourself, based on my of 33 years of freelance writing and selling. It will show you what it takes to become a freelance writer. You can use the book to ease yourself into full- or part-time writing. Fiction or nonfiction.
It delineates the often-overlooked skills you must possess to join the Writing World, like resourcefulness, analyzing other writers’ works, and thinking like a writer. Or if your skills are limited, how to develop them.
The Writing Life also advises you on how to lay out the groundwork for your career, where to get ideas, creating figurative language like similes and metaphors, and much more. Basically, How to Write.
The book also leads you step-by-step on conducting yourself as a professional. You will learn such useful information as rights and payments, such divergent skills as writing query letters, saying no to friends and family, setting goals--everything you need to make you professional, for above all, the Writing World demands professionalism. Without it, your work will be ignored.
The Writing Life also discusses in depth an area totally avoided by writing magazines and books, but desperately needed: information on the psychological requirements needed to become a successful freelance writer, and the psychological effects of the writing life.