@steemitpatina your amazon book and course certainly sound interesting.

I guess I see professional writing on 2 levels.

1. We "need" to do what we need to do. If we are passionate about it, then it's hard not to express our views. And as always, there will be people who love what we do, and people who hate what we do.

As I think you said(?) we can't let other people stop us. They may not get our why. They often don't care about our why ;-)

1. As for professional writing for clients, in any capacity, there's always a balance there.

Bottom line some clients are just too needy and a PITA. Or are power freaks and won't let you do you job, the way your experience/skill tells you it should be done. They want to micro manage and really write it themselves.

It's certainly never been intuitive for me, and during "Hungry" times it seemed an insane thing to do, but "sacking your clients" is one of the most important things any entrepreneur/writer can learn.

Sometimes you just have to realise when you don't "fit" with a client or a project and just say no.

A writer has to have their own personal guidelines and be strong enough to say "no".

Of all the words in my writing arsenal, "no" is the most precious of them ;-)