The Creative Life Is Possible

What Is a Writer’s Job?

A plumber fixes pipes; what does a writer do?

James Taylor Foreman
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readNov 18, 2021

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When I was 27, I felt like dying.

Everything was going fine. I had a good job. It paid well. I had friends, hobbies, and goals.

But something was deeply wrong. I couldn’t understand it all at once.

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