dangerous to write about wanting to be a writer,
Hi Benjamin. Thanks for all the help you have been giving at EssayForum!
I wanted to mention that the error is not in specifying that you want to be a writer. It is in the fact that saying you want to be a writer is unnecessarily vague.
Similarly, I think saying you want to be a physician is vague, because if you have given it serious thought you will have several areas of specialization in mind.
Saying you want to be a psychologist is another example, because you can always specify goals that reflect thoughtful consideration.
So... being a writer is not something specific. You can be a writer-attorney, a writer-politician, a writer-comedian, a ghostwriter, a guy who corrects essays, etc. :-) Know what I mean?
Consult Strunk and White, and you'll see that this sentence is better without that last comma:
It started in second grade, and, like most good things (no comma necessary) it came to me in the form of a hippo-head handout.---brilliant
I challenge you to set up a free account at Elance, and take some of the quizzes so that people can see what you are good at. If you try Elance and it teaches you a lot, I'll take all the credit for suggesting it! :-)
This part could be more efficient, and that would make it more poignant, and it is also true that some people would mistake it for a run on sentence even though it is actually okay-----> ...because I'm a writer, its who I am, and even if I never publish anything that is never going to change.
Also, please spend some time reading about how the profession of a writer is changing. Technically, you just published something when you hit "submit" on this web forum.
Go make yourself a blog! Do you blog? I'm glad you joined EssayForum.