This article begins to talk about writing and ends up talking about child-rearing. Ok. Though the two are related, because both fall along the lifespans of certain individuals, it doesn't really address what it takes to be a writer in general, or a writer of articles, or novels or poems, or plays, or even fortune cookies. The thing about being a writer is that writing needs to be written. No writing, no writer. Getting people to buy the writing, that's a different story. How the writing process occurs over a broad selection of writers is what I was expecting to read about and something I think is an article worth reading about. I already read a bunch of articles on Millenials and the current marketplace though.
I agree. This article was disappointing. I shared it because I think I wanted to talk about how disappointing it was. I don't see much data in the article to support its conclusions, to be frank, just anecdotes and observations. Attempts at justifying those anecdotes, sure, but still. Not data. I think that if you don't have a job as a writer and want to consider yourself a writer, you can't afford to procrastinate. Not on a weekly basis. If I haven't written anything in a week, am I still a writer? (Exceptions for hiatuses. I have taken hiatuses once or twice before. But then I'm not a writer. I'm on hiatus.)