A long, meandering post wherein I grind your dreams under my boot heel – and then lift you back up, maybe.

That’s a pretty grim headline isn’t it?After all, so many of us are chasing just that exact dream: Quit the day job and spend all day following ourimaginary friends around our fictional worlds – in between rounds of Candy Crush and Peggle, of course. Sitting in your underpants, swilling coffee and slinging words. What’s not to like?

It’s a pretty gutsy claim as well. Almost all of us kno...