Fops, Dandies, and Luvvies – How to Become a Writer

Fops, Dandies, and Luvvies – How to Become a Writer: "On Shadesbreath’s excellent Hub, HubPages Sucks, an interesting conversation developed, a lament of times gone by; the days when everybody knew what a writer was and exactly what a writer did. Writers locked themselves in rooms whilst fearful servants passed food under the door, fearing to incur the wrath of an artist dancing with Muses in an unbridled outburst of creative genius and passion. Everybody was perfectly happy with this except, of course, the writers themselves, who tended to starve and develop an unhealthy, corpselike pallor. Sadly, adulation does not fill a plate or fix the leaking roof, so writers used the emancipated frame and hacking cough as emblems of honour and identity."