Guest Post: 4 Reactions I Get When I Tell People “I Am a Writer”

Guest Post Alert!

Joe Bunting over at The Write Practice was kind enough to give me a guest post slot yesterday. 4 Reactions I Get When I Tell People “I Am a Writer” was inspired by my journey from hard-charging, itinerant executive to full-time author. Due to the rather <ahem> sudden nature of my life change, I spent the first year dealing with a lot of quizzical looks.

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“I am a writer.”

In America, where so often our job defines who we are, these four little words can throw a wrench into the gears of polite conversation.

There was a time when I sported some pretty meaty titles: lieutenant in the US Navy, Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Asia-Pacific Operations. The kind of titles that take up two lines on a business card and say, “This guy is important.”

But were those titles really me?

After ten years in the navy, I played the part of a hardcore, no-nonsense business guy for almost two decades, leaving the creative side of my personality hidden deep—waaay deep—down inside of me.

Read the rest over at The Write Practice.

David Bruns is the creator of the sci-fi series The Dream Guild Chronicles, one half of the Two Navy Guys and a Novel blog series about co-writing a military thriller, and co-author of Weapons of Mass Deception, a story of modern-day nuclear terrorism.