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I'm getting ready for the mini-tour and knocking off wordcount on Heaven's Spite, so today we have a list of five things about writing as a career.

1. Writing is a physical act. Yes, you do it sitting in front of a word-processor, or sitting at a desk. That does not mean it is effortless. The sheer brute physical labor of typing eighty to a hundred thousand words for a novel (and let's not even talk about revisions) is hard on the delicate structu