-          you know your words have value.

- you have the grit to pit your work against someone else’s in a fierce marketplace.

-          you have enough self-discipline to write on a regular basis, not just when you feel like it.

 - you have the initiative to shamelessly promote your work and yourself as a writer.

-          you can be thick skinned when it comes to rejection.

-          you believe you can pay the rent by plying your craft.

 - editors can rely on you to meet deadlines.

- you simply can’t imagine any other way to make a living…except, of course, maybe flipping burgers on those inevitable bad days.

- you are as much a businessperson as you are a writer (like it or not).

- you get paid to write.

© Donna M Chavez, 2003

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