Should I have become a writer?

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I have always romanticised the idea of being a writer. A lot of people think it must be easy to choose creativity over practicality, because a lot of people like to insist that the arts and literature are not careers but hobbies. We already know that they’re wrong about this, despite the struggle of actually being a writer — both financially and in terms of life balance.