When I retire, I'm going to become a brain surgeon

Part 1
Writing isn't brain surgery, but it's hard work
By Elizabeth Floyd Mair | Albany Times Union
published at the Montreal Gazette

Author Marion Roach Smith gets ticked off at dinner parties when brain surgeons ask what she does for a living and then say, "A writer! Wonderful! I'm going to write a book someday myself."

Recently, she says, she has taken to replying, "When I retire, I'm going to become a brain surgeon."

If you are a writer, what kind of reaction do you get from people?  Or what do you sense that people are thinking?  Please share your thoughts using the poll in the right column. You can check as many items as you like.  Even if you don't make your living by your writing (yet), answer the poll if you get reactions when you talk about your writing.

Further in the "brain surgery" article, I found this comment that stuck me as useful. It's a little off the subject and led to me a long post, so I decided to break the post into two separate post.

see Part 2.

Click here to read more of the Montreal Gazette story.