Spring Break pt.2: Writing and Life. Help.

[mckitterick]

Geez, how could I forget this part (continued from late-last-night's Spring Break postI've also been working on my next book some more, working out plot points and developing characters and scenes. Almost have it all in place! Which leads me to an insight

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[bogwitch64]

I'm lucky--I get to do the writing/editing gig full time. It really IS a full-time job, especially if you want to publish fairly regularly.

Something's got to give, Chris. I ended up giving up Girl Scouts to concentrate on my writing, because BOTH were full-time jobs--not to mention the whole MOM thing. If you know you will start to resent work because it keeps you from writing you need to make the time, somehow. In the schedule of stuff you have listed up there? I don't see how!

Prioritize, and give up something that's going to allow you to concentrate the time you need for writing.

So says the bogwitch.
(I'll see you in May!)

[clevermanka]

Prioritize, and give up something that's going to allow you to concentrate the time you need for writing.

[mckitterick]

See my response, below.

[mckitterick]

I've actually considered going full-time, myself, but I like not being broke! Did it a while when I first moved to Seattle.

Watching my mother's mind go has made me think a lot about things. I often wonder, these days, how much longer I'll have - just 20 years? How much can I finish in that time? Will medical science have a cure for Alzheimer's, and will I have to face that devil?

The big things I do that don't earn an income, like work for the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, are why I moved to Lawrence in the first place. How do I give that up? And things like working on cars and the house - those are breaks from the intellectual, when I get in a lot of good thinking time for my writing.

Hm.

[bogwitch64]

Ask yourself this, my dear--"Which one will I regret losing the most at the end of it all?"