Let's Work: What's Your Job As a Writer?

I’ve been stressing the way that we need to see writing as work, focusing as much on the time you spend doing it or the amount of it as opposed to just the quality of it or the degree of “inspiration” you might feel. But even seeing writing as “work” can be an overly simplified way of seeing it, since what is also important is the way we understand what this work entails.

Here’s a great memorial of Prince from a former publicist, where the singer challenges him about what’s his job?”:

“Prince’s Former Publicist: Everything I Needed to Know I learned From Prince”

And here’s a video to “Let’s Work” from the Controversy album