accounting and dragons

[marycatelli]

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more. . . plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

-- Patricia C. Wrede

Comments

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

Ha! Doing our taxes might be more fun if dragon stories were involved.

[marycatelli]

Even better if the dragons did the taxes!

They've minds for it, keeping track of their hoards like that.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I found that writing role-playing scenarios fulfilled my dragon-needs as a chartered accountant...

[marycatelli]

Depends on where one's talents lie. It's very different, writing stories.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely. I would really struggle to write a novel. Or even a short story.

[marycatelli]

Very likely. It's a work in which railroading your characters is a virtue.