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Random: Joe Straczynski's 'Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer' has an Interesting chapter where he writes about 'the tyranny of reasonable voices' - where loved ones will desuade someone from persuing a writing, or other 'non-traditional' career in favour of getting 'a proper job', thinking they are protecting them from the prospect of failure, humiliation, poverty, low chances of succeeding: "Get a proper job/income and you might, with luck, get to persue your art as a 'lesser' priority".
@Clavius_42 I took a correspondence course in novel writing (while employed at my day job) and one suggestion stayed with me ever since: “It’s not essential that your writing support you; it’s essential that you support your writing.” Many very famous authors faced years of rejection. Humanity would have lost a great deal of fine literature if their “loved ones” had successfully steered them away from writing.