The 7 Writer Types You Should Avoid Becoming – Chicago Review of Books

Full confession: I have been some of the writer types below at various points in my career (although never the last type). And what I've come to find incredibly helpful to avoid being those writers is to review career goals and core values and interests on a yearly basis and, every few months, to ask myself: Are my actions and words supporting what I believe to be helpful to my creative life and to building community and to, well, having fun?

Because it is easy to drift or to get off track. Sometimes that's because what you need is not the same as what you want. Sometimes it's because the kind of writer you are isn't compatible with your career goals. Most of the time, though, you just need that planned moment of self-awareness to reflect and course-correct amidst the welter of activity that can be a writing career.