Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always _____1_____ such people, but I also explain that there is a big difference between “_____2_____” and writing. In most cases these _____3_____ are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a _____4_____. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.” The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and _____5_____ affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousand more whose _____6_____ is not rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no _____7_____ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me in my room in a New York apartment building. It did not even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used typewriter and felt like a _____8_____ writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I _____9_____ made enough money to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I would keep putting my dream to the test — even though it meant living with ____10______ and fear of failure. There is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.