“Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed novelist, yesterday issued blunt advice to budding authors: don’t do it.

At a master-class at Glasgow University, the Booker winner, joked with an audience of creative writing students: ‘If I were your parent, I would say: ‘why are you doing it?’ You should go get a proper [job]’.'”

The Scotsman

Well that’s not exactly follow your bliss, is it? She may have a point of course, but really … how do you spell a raspberry, a Bronx cheer? ptbtbtbtbtbbbbbt.