Writing Question
My writing is coming along. I won't say I'm perfect yet or even a really good writer. As I write though, I feel the improvement coming. I really think I'll be done with the first draft of my manuscript sometime in August. I'm aiming for a 60,000 word count. I know that doesn't seem like a lot but I want to leave room for the final draft. In the end, I'm hoping for 90,000. Is 60,000 too short? I was thinking 70,000 before but I know I'm going to need to add more show and not tell to my writing.
I still have to sign up for the writer's conference at Lakeland Community College in September. I enjoyed the last one and can't wait to see what goes on at this one. I just need to remember to sign up. I'm waiting until I have some more money. There is definitely a lot of catching up to do with money issues after being jobless for so long.
My question for the weekend is, how do you writers out there handle a full-time job and write? I'm not really working the second shift at work but not the first. It's a midday shift I guess you could say. I've tried the morning and wrote as I drowned in my coffee. That wasn't so bad. I just have to get use to waking up early and getting right into writing. Not easy when you're not a morning person. I have yet to really try writing in the evening. I want to wait until I start my full-time schedule since I'm still getting off early right now and technically that gives me an extra three hours.
I hope to hear how you guys handle it. It's a dream right now but I would really like to be working part-time at my job and full-time at writing. Eventually the dream continues where I'm a full-time writer.
I still have to sign up for the writer's conference at Lakeland Community College in September. I enjoyed the last one and can't wait to see what goes on at this one. I just need to remember to sign up. I'm waiting until I have some more money. There is definitely a lot of catching up to do with money issues after being jobless for so long.
My question for the weekend is, how do you writers out there handle a full-time job and write? I'm not really working the second shift at work but not the first. It's a midday shift I guess you could say. I've tried the morning and wrote as I drowned in my coffee. That wasn't so bad. I just have to get use to waking up early and getting right into writing. Not easy when you're not a morning person. I have yet to really try writing in the evening. I want to wait until I start my full-time schedule since I'm still getting off early right now and technically that gives me an extra three hours.
I hope to hear how you guys handle it. It's a dream right now but I would really like to be working part-time at my job and full-time at writing. Eventually the dream continues where I'm a full-time writer.