Working at creative writing is a bit like being unemployed...no-one to give you work tasks, no-one to check over the completed product, no pay-packet! At least that's how it feels a lot of the time.
The dream is to write something that so many people love to read that you actually make a decent income from it.
Some smart creative writers manage to combine writing newspaper stories, magazine articles or advertising copy with their passion. It means writing to deadlines about things that may not seem particularly important to the writer, but it does mean some income and the discipline of writing whether you feel like it or not.
For the writer who loves to write, the reward of being published (albeit not in the desired genre) is gratifying and provides opportunities to develop the writing talent beyond its raw state. Nothing helps a writer to improve like real feedback. Writing for others often provides this where writing for oneself often doesn't, or else draws only the encouraging positive words of friends who do not wish to hurt or offend. "The wounds of friends are precious" can certainly be applied here. Discovering a constructive critic among one's friends is like finding gold. Flattery is of absolutely no help to a writer who really wants to be an author.
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