An Amateur Who Didn't Quit

What is a professional?

It seems like such a simple question. A professional baseball player is one who plays on a pro sports team. A professional attorney is one who has a legal practice. A professional plumber is one who has been licensed by the proper authorities.

Judging by those examples, a professional writer is one who gets paid to write, correct? It would seem pretty cut and dried, but we writers have a bad habit of complicating things, especially when it concerns our creative identity.

The aviation and fantasy writer Richard Bach helped shed some light on this issue when he said, “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

On this episode, Kent draws three key lessons from Bach's quote and helps us see the pathway to becoming a professional.

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