This weekend, I watched a movie called Julie and Julia. Loved it. It’s the first movie I’ve seen in ages that actually depicts how hard it is for writers to become published. Usually your typical movie storyline involving writers has them being discovered, published and rising to fame and fortune in about a nanosecond.

Simply not true.

Most published writers are what you call a ten year over night successes.

Julie and Julia is a tale of two very different writers who are linked together by a common love for cooking. Although they never meet they both experience real trial and tribulations of becoming a published writer from writing blogs that get no comments to spending eight years revising a book for a publisher that in the end they just turn down.

It was a feel good film, heaps of comedy and a happy ending. I highly recommend it. Although, if you do sit down and watch it, make sure you’ve got something to snack on. This movie is also guaranteed to make you hungry!

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