Dear Indie Annie, My family thinks I’m wasting my time writing. They interrupt me frequently and expect me to drop what I’m doing since they don’t think I’m doing anything important. How can I convince them I want this to be a career, not a hobby? Frustrated with Family in Flagstaff Dear Frustrated, Oh my lovely, I feel your pain as will most of your fellow writers reading about your plight.  Many of us will have faced similar challenges. Personally, I found my boss at my old day job most unsupportive of my writing while on company time. She would constantly ask me to do the tasks I was being paid to do and was most impolite. I mean, seriously, one would think she paid me out of her own pocket. But I digress. You, my dear, are not talking about stealing a few minutes away from your unenlightened employer.