The Confessional and the Writer

You can’t make it, if you can’t confide the truth to someone

What do writers seek, more than any single other thing, in their working career?

—I’m not talking about writers’ craft, I’m talking about how we make a living, reach an audience, put food on the table. That need is different from our muse, the gift, or a practiced pen.

The answer is this: working writers seek someone “in the know” to confide to. —Someon…