ursulav linked to a
quiz posted recently on the Horror Writers Association website, in order to point out how limiting and poisonous it is. Essentially, the author of the article and quiz is of that breed of writer who assumes that if your life is not 100% consumed with writing, to the detriment of your social life and your finances, then you are not a professional. You are, instead, a hobbyist. She came to write this quiz after dropping into an online discussion group for writers to discover that they were, horror!
talking about subjects other than writing!I don't need to add my voice the growing number of eye-rollers in the comments on
ursulav's blog, but I thought it would be funny to change the questions from writing to librarianship to see if I, a professional librarian, meet her criteria for "professional."
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