Shortly thereafter Safi heard about the first #DVpit, a Twitter event where diverse unagented creators have space within a tweet to pitch their novels, and agents and even editors can give tweets a “like” to signify their interest in knowing more. Safi emphasized that she had a safety net including a partner with a salary and insurance, which allowed her to take this leap, and added, “Never burn your boats if there’s an outside chance of ruin.”īut burn boats she did, quitting her day job and diving headfirst into writing -giving herself a year to really go after it and work on a manuscript and try to sell it. “But as I finished day four at that job and came home sobbing, realizing what I’d done was force myself into a job I hated, all for the sake of appearing like the kind of respectable human who could get an office job -I decided to leap.” “If I could have done anything else, anything but writing, I probably would have,” Safi said. On the list of potential careers she explored for various amounts of time are museum archivist, gallery PR person, retail worker, and academic she even spent four days working in marketing in an office job. Before she became a writer, Aminah Mae Safi said, she tried to do just about anything else.
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