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WM is usually a source of great encouragement and inspiration to me. However, Lynne Hackles’ piece on her preferred response to the question ‘What do you do?’ (Novel Ideas, WM, April) left me far from encouraged or inspired. And her recommendation that readers should actively avoid answering ‘I’m a writer’ when someone asks this question left me utterly deflated, I’m sorry to say.
It is sad to think that someone with Lynne’s writing credentials nonetheless feels the need to conceal that this is what she does for a living, apparently because she feels insufficiently famous to merit the job title ‘writer’. Where on earth does that leave those of us still toiling away as hobbyists and wannabes? Should we be just as coy about our writing, and just keep it as our guilty secret?