Then there are the days when the words gallop into existence, as opposed to the days when the words trickle out in a crawl.
That, I suspect, is the difference between an amateur and a pro.
In the day job when the words are due, you just turn the spigot and out they flow. If you want to be a professional author, then author-type words need to flow when you turn the spigot.
A professional may write “when the mood strikes,” but he makes damn sure that the mood strikes when it’s time to get to work.
If your business is words, you need to ship words when you say you will.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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