Sarah is one unusual woman/person — or perhaps, just perhaps, not so unusual about fame. It is a trap to many people who find it. Read her thoughts and think about it ….
I never wanted to be famous. As far as I can tell, this is weird for people in my field who want fame and fortune. I just wanted money to live. I’m not at all sure how I imagined this would work, honestly, but I envisioned myself as making a good living from writing, without anyone ever knowing me from Adam. It took me years into this business before I figured out that the two were inextricably linked. Probably.
Part of this – again – was because I had NO interest in the fame part of it. Ideally I would live in either the equivalent of my native village, where maybe not a single soul read the stuff I wrote, or in a large enough city that I could smile and say “it’s the other Sarah Hoyt.” And they won’t know any better.
I could still get lucky and make…
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