📓 A "Serious" Writer 📓

It’s past 11pm. I am officially having "Night Thoughts". Now is the time when I decide to throw away all current ideas and become a serious writer. But what does it mean to be a serious writer? What am I saying about other writers when I make that declaration? These are things that must be considered. I suppose I perceive a "serious" writer as one who writes "serious" fiction, whether that's literary fiction or genre fiction. It's well-written. It's spoken of as if it's serious. Rivers Solomon is someone I think of as a serious writer. They do serious writing in the horror genre. A serious writer makes art. How do I do this? I don't know. I am a fundamentally unserious person; I take very little seriously. I suppose this blog is about my journey towards this goal. Hopefully I won't bore you with too much talk about writing. I'll read my blogging-for-authors book and work out how to write about interesting things. For...