Would I be happy as a writer?

I’d start by making a practice of writing every day and see how you like it.

Also think about what sort of writer you might like to be. Fiction (very hard to make money at)? Technical writing? Journalism?

You’re a competent writer in this format. What else have you written? Do you think there are types of writing in which you might want to do serious work? (Or not serious work – comedy, cartoons, comics?)

As opposed to what?

Let the writer community of Fluther respond on writing skills shown by you!! You ask some pretty good questions which shows your imagination i think which is also important for a writer.

It’s clear that you like to write, and my guess is that this is one of the 2 reasons why your ACTUAL career is about churning out inane questions at a stupefying pace. So the question is not “would I be…” the question is are you happy NOW as a writer.

You have the hallmarks of a great writer. You’re both broke and a tortured soul. The only clue betraying you as not having attained the status of true greatness is your eagerness in throwing that word “happy” around.

And don’t make the mistake typical of writers in confusing the question “would I be happy as a writer?” with “can I earn a living as a writer?”

You should write comic books. Shoot, at the rate they are churning those into movies, I should think you could be happy AND wealthy.
You have that great brand of imagination for making the unlikely seem real, and interesting.
I don’t know how one goes about writing comic book stories, whether you need to team with an artist, or write the story and then a publisher asigns an artist to illustrate what you wrote. You should check into it. The world of comics is expanding and it seems there is no leveling off point.
I think you would be great.

You show a lot of imagination and creativity in your questions. Your answers betray a deficiency of analytical ability, but that may not be a serious problem. What you need to realize is that writing does not come easy. You have to really work at it. Only you can tell if doing this would be satisfying. I would question whether you have the self-discipline required to make writing into a profession.

This is a rhetorical question.

Are you writing for yourself, or or an audience?

A diarist, for example, writes for him or herself; they’re writing to record memories and have access to them in the future. It’s intensely personal, and style (and grammar) matter less than context and content.

If you’re writing for others – fiction? non-fiction? essays? books? polemics? —you’re writing for an audience. So the question becomes: can you/do you want to write what others want to read?

Who is your audience and what is your genre?

You might be great or you might be horrible. There is only one way to find out.

^Yeah. “If you wanna learn how to swim, you gotta jump.in the water.”

None of us are you. We do not live your life and we do not live in your head or have access to your thoughts, feelings and emotions. We cannot say if you would be happy as a writer (or anything else) or not, only you can.

If you want to write then write. If it makes you happy then keep writing. Even if it’s never a career or money maker you might still find satisfaction in writing just for the sake of writing. Many do. I don’t know if you’re a creative person or not, but most creative types, be they writers, musicians, artists, photographers or whatnot, are driven to create even if no one else ever sees it. Case-in-point: Vivian Maier – who spent most of her life in Chicago and worked as a nanny. She never worked as a photographer, yet she photographed constantly and left hundreds of thousands of undeveloped exposures that were basically only discovered after she died.

So write if you are driven to. Don’t worry about money or recognition or anything else, just write and see how it suits you.

It’s not the being something or doing something or even having something that makes anyone happy. People have these weird ideas that being, doing or having will “make them happy”. Happiness doesn’t work that way.

You can have everything in the world and be unhappy (in fact, it’s probably more likely than not in that case), and you can have nothing yet still be happy. These things are unrelated to careers, accomplishments and possessions.

Even if you like writing and are good at it, that’s no guarantee of happiness.

And also don’t make the mistake of conflating “satisfaction” with happiness, either.

Thanks @all

Why not? I’m happy as a drunk. Happy is as happy does.