How babies are made

[Zombie]

I love to dream.   The only drawback to writing copy is that no matter how good you are you never get to be famous.

 

Not necessarily ... F. Scott Fitzgerald, Salman Rushdie, Dorothy Sayers, Don DeLillo, Joseph Heller and Helen Gurley Brown all worked as copywriters early in their careers - Rushdie came up with "Naughty. But nice" cream cakes for Ogilvy & Mather; Sayers introduced "Just think what Toucan do" to Guinness and, thanks to Fitzgerald, streetcars in Iowa once ran with the promise "We keep you clean in Muscatine" sparkling on their sides ... advertising was mostly just a means to an end - a day job to keep them solvent until they were lucky enough to leave. But their time in advertising wasn't a waste: as copywriters, some learned how to write economically and on deadline; others discovered fertile subjects in the office life and business culture around them; while others used office hours to work on the books that would later make their names 

http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/six-authors-who-were-copywriters-first

 

Oops off topic, sorry 

Edited March 1, 2013 by Zombie