![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t rightly take one over the other, but one skill came effortlessly and was already landing me contract jobs at sixteen, while the other required marching through a very dark forest with lots of brambles and strange, gleaming eyes blinking between the trees. It was the desperate option too: not because I thought I was forfeiting my dream of becoming a writer, but because I knew that design and writing would be forever intertwined for me. The difficult and desperate reality of making such a statement, especially in front of anyone who works in the publishing industry, is that the road to career writing is a long and fraught with obstacles - two of which, I learned early, involved wanting to actually make money, and that it required the sort of talent that I wasn’t immediately predisposed to.įaced with this dark reality (and the necessary hurdle of choosing what to study at the university level), I didn’t quite give up on the dream as much as I turned my attention to the other thing I was reasonably good at, and tucked into a design baccalaureate. ![]() Story walking the spirit roadįor as long as I can remember, I’ve only ever wanted to write books. ![]()
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