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Midweek Update Is Counting Down the Hours
Aug. 1st, 2018 12:54 pmJust a few more days until vacation, woohoo! Can't wait!
Had my midyear conversation with my boss at the Day Job and it got me thinking again about future plans. More to the point, thinking about the Day Job finally, after far too many years, being the writing career. It got me thinking about multiple things, really: the reason I've had a purposely mindless Day Job over the years in the first place (stable income, paying off bills, etc), why I hadn't yet made the jump to self-employed (stable income, paying off bills, etc...but also learning the craft to a much higher degree), and so on. I think the most obvious reason is that I just couldn't afford it. That reason always aggravates me on a deep level (which I won't go into at the moment)...but recently I've come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, if I make a solid plan, start networking, and stick at it, I can finally do it.
It's not that I hate the Day Job...I think it's just that I now feel that while it's steady income, it takes away from time that could be better used on what I really should be doing: writing, offering writing services (including basic editing and formatting), offering book cover services, and the occasional short-term assignments out there. It's something I very nearly did when we first moved out here to CA, but fell by the wayside once the national economy tanked. It's been too long in between.
Anyway. Time to look into this a little further.
Other news: I finally got around to collecting what I have so far of the Apartment Complex story, and much to my surprise and glee, I'm already at 54k words!! This is from three months' worth of writing five times a week. Not bad at all! I think it's probably going to be around 80k from my guess, and will be firmly placed in the YA Fantasy genre. I'm actually becoming quite proud of this particular project, for multiple reasons. One being that I was stubborn enough to keep at it despite multiple failed attempts! I'm looking forward to releasing this one in early 2019!
Hope everyone's having a good week! :)
Had my midyear conversation with my boss at the Day Job and it got me thinking again about future plans. More to the point, thinking about the Day Job finally, after far too many years, being the writing career. It got me thinking about multiple things, really: the reason I've had a purposely mindless Day Job over the years in the first place (stable income, paying off bills, etc), why I hadn't yet made the jump to self-employed (stable income, paying off bills, etc...but also learning the craft to a much higher degree), and so on. I think the most obvious reason is that I just couldn't afford it. That reason always aggravates me on a deep level (which I won't go into at the moment)...but recently I've come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, if I make a solid plan, start networking, and stick at it, I can finally do it.
It's not that I hate the Day Job...I think it's just that I now feel that while it's steady income, it takes away from time that could be better used on what I really should be doing: writing, offering writing services (including basic editing and formatting), offering book cover services, and the occasional short-term assignments out there. It's something I very nearly did when we first moved out here to CA, but fell by the wayside once the national economy tanked. It's been too long in between.
Anyway. Time to look into this a little further.
Other news: I finally got around to collecting what I have so far of the Apartment Complex story, and much to my surprise and glee, I'm already at 54k words!! This is from three months' worth of writing five times a week. Not bad at all! I think it's probably going to be around 80k from my guess, and will be firmly placed in the YA Fantasy genre. I'm actually becoming quite proud of this particular project, for multiple reasons. One being that I was stubborn enough to keep at it despite multiple failed attempts! I'm looking forward to releasing this one in early 2019!
Hope everyone's having a good week! :)
