A couple pennies of my own...achtungbaby1980November 11 2004, 23:11:23 UTC
I say you should take it. It's a raise. It sounds like it won't be any more hours than you're currently working. You can always give up the key and/or quit after the holidays if you hate it. Even though you want to be writing your own stuff, you need money to live on in the mean time. Most writers pre-first book have to do something else on the side to survive. It's like actors. And you said yourself you get more done there than at home. Until you have at least a partially written book (and I don't mean a journal or a list of ideas), you're gonna need something else going on to live on. A wise and bestselling writer once told me (well, me and a large group of her other fans...), the difference between someone who dabbles in writing and a really succuessful writer is the ability to make yourself write every day on a clearly designated project. You may throw it away. You may change it along the way, but until you set up a clear goal and work toward it, it's nothing you can make a living on. Everyone has a story inside them. The
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But I like flitting from one thing to anotheriamangelachaseNovember 12 2004, 04:38:00 UTC
Remember: I too am flaky.
Now, seeing as I didn't write last night--I'll get to that soon--no one heard about my little "discussion" with Bossman and K about the key. I about gave him a heart attack, let me tell you.
The biggest problem about taking the key is that I *wouldn't* be down in the kiosk. They would need me upstairs more. That's not saying I'd never be down there, but my long stretches of whatever it is I do down there (taking copious notes, doodling, reading the Little House treasury--I'm into the second book now) would pretty much disappear. So much for getting paid to write
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Now, seeing as I didn't write last night--I'll get to that soon--no one heard about my little "discussion" with Bossman and K about the key. I about gave him a heart attack, let me tell you.
The biggest problem about taking the key is that I *wouldn't* be down in the kiosk. They would need me upstairs more. That's not saying I'd never be down there, but my long stretches of whatever it is I do down there (taking copious notes, doodling, reading the Little House treasury--I'm into the second book now) would pretty much disappear. So much for getting paid to write ( ... )
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