An Amateur Who Didn't Quit

The Daily Writer · Nov 9, 2020 · 2m

What is a professional? It seems like such a simple question. A professional baseball player is one who plays on a pro sports team. A professional attorney is one who has a legal practice. A professional plumber is one who has been licensed by the proper authorities. Judging by those examples, a professional writer is one who gets paid to write, correct? It would seem pretty cut and dried, but we writers have a bad habit of complicating things, especially when it concerns our creative identity. The aviation and fantasy writer Richard Bach helped shed some light on this issue when he said, “A…