Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for June 20, 2016

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Every single day I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how to become a writer… …and here is the only advice I can give: Don’t make stuff because you want to make money… DAILY HERALD BOY GENIUS WINS GRANT News Today PATENT KING WORTH MILLIONS …it will never make you enough money. WORLD’S FAIR Don’t make stuff because you want to get famous, because you will never feel famous enough. WIZZ KID DOES IT AGAIN INVENTOR OF THE YEAR Make gifts for people. And work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice. Maybe they will notice how hard you worked… …and maybe they won’t. And if they don’t notice… …I know it’s frustrating. But ultimately, that doesn’t change anything because your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for… …but to the gift itself. - John Green