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One Day at a Time is The Only Way I Can Truly Do It
One day at a time acknowledges the notion of living in and for the now.
The unfortunate reality of my art, presently, is that it’s not paying me a living wage. I am working on improving this — which is part of why I’ve published 6 new novels this year.
However, I am an adult with bills to pay. As much as I am striving to make my writing be my primary income — as of this writing, it’s not yet.
So, I have taken on some part-time work.
The first job is doing executive assistant work for an incredible creative entrepreneur. The second is copywriting for another amazing creative entrepreneur.
Both jobs are not just aligned with my skillset — but the kind of work I like to do. This is excellent — since one of the reasons I strive to write full-time is to be able to do work I love.
Crazy, right? Doing a job you like? Who does that?
It should, frankly, be everyone. But that’s a whole other matter.
The trouble is — while I am enjoying the gigs I’ve taken on — my writing has fallen off.
I set a daily goal for myself to put 1500 words of fiction a day into something. That can be worldbuilding, the outline for a novel…
