If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.