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39. you know, it's not easy to make a living as a writer

But a person can work at something akin to writing and then write on the side. Your job is exhausting you mentally and emotionally. I can see how it would be very hard to do something else on the side. A plan and a dream would refresh you and allow you to quit that soul-killing place.

As I have read about your love of books, I have thought about how it might be for you to be a library worker; to encourage that same kind of love of reading in others and be paid to work with books. I know your student loan is in collection, but I wonder what it would take for you to be able to go back to school.

And there are other paths, too. You could get some training and work as an editor, from home. Wouldn't have to move for that. Or maybe you could be an apprentice at a publishing house.

And when you are free from that job by implementing a short-term plan, you could develop your writing.

Diversification of revenue streams is important for a young writer. That means more than one source of income.

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