Do What You Can’t?

I live under no delusions about my life. In a lot of ways, I’m living the dream. While my fiction doesn’t support my family, I do make a living by writing. I’m lucky that way and I know it. I make a living by being creative.

It’s beautiful.

I also know that a lot of people want to be where I am. They want to make a good living, at a minimum, from being a creative type. Meanwhile, there are a lot of other people who may mean well who will try to dissuade you from those dreams.

Earlier today, I saw a video from Casey Neistat on YouTube from a couple of years ago where he talks a bit about that: