A. offered B. resolution C. dancing D. published E. sacrifices F. storage G. prospects H. aware I. break J. plunged K. affair L. stick M. wealth There is a difference between "being a writer" and writing. As a matter of fact, many who wish to be writers are longing for (1) ______ and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. They are not (2) ______ of the fact that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying (3) ______. I remember when I became a freelance writer, I had no (4) ______ at all. What I did have was a friend and a small (5) ______ room in an apartment building. It didn't even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. Immediately I bought a used manual typewriter and (6) ______ myself into writing. After a year or so, however, I still hadn't received a (7) ______ and began to doubt myself. Then one day I was (8) ______ a job earning 6000 dollars a year. As the dollars were (9) ______ in my head, something cleared my senses. From deep inside a bull-headed (10) ______ welled up. I heard myself saying," I'm going to (11) ______ it out and write. " I realized that you had to make (12) ______ and live creatively to keep working at your dreams. Then, in 1970, 17 years after I left the Coast Guard, Roots was (13) ______ . The shadows had turned into dazzling limelight.