What makes something "professional"?

Blank pages frighten most writers, me included.

You have got to want it.

Yes, the internet has automated everything, even writing fairy tales.

Do you write "speculative fiction"?

Is your novel set on an alternate Earth?

Are you a current resident of the UK?

Could you use some money?

Okay, not the newest market any more, but they're still buying short fiction.

Specifically, Brain Harvest is buying ultra-short speculative fiction, preferably under 750 words. And, I think, they pay pretty well for that market.

"My crackpot theory is that people are losing their skill to express themselves, and they’re, in a way, farming that task out. If they want to express themselves they buy a song or they buy a greeting card that’s already processed by someone who’s kept that skill. We can’t express our own feelings anymore so we have to hire someone to do that." --Chuck Palahniuk

Timing, I have been told, is everything.
I believe that's mostly true, but, not, perhaps, in the way, I think, most people mean.

I'm tired of my life.

I've lost my idea net.