Many a young persons tells me he wants to be a writer. 【M1】______I always encourage such p

Many a young persons tells me he wants to be a writer. 【M1】______

I always encourage such people, but I also explain that

there's a big differences between "being a writer" and writing. 【M2】______

In cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and 【M3】______

fame, not the long hours alone on a typewriter. 【M4】______

Reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying 【M5】______

affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands

more whose longing is never awarded. When I left a 20 - year career 【M6】______

in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人) ,

I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found

me my room in a New York apartment building. It wasn't even 【M7】______

matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought

a used mannual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. 【M8】______

After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break and

began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely

made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. 1 had dreamed

about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who

die wondered, What if？ I would keep putting my dream to the test— 【M9】______

even enough it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. 【M10】______

This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must

learn to live there.

【M1】