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Azur
I wish I had your courage, Azur.   Not only do you have a job - writing informative articles and being paid for them - but you are making the time to write a novel as well.   That takes guts!

posted by johnmacnab on May 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM | link to this | reply

Azur

Your problems are very similar to the ones i'm having, i guess this is the cross that anyone in a creative field has to bear, sacrifice is part and parcel of the business, giving up on your dream is not!

All the best love with that novel,  perseverance can work miracles

posted by lindo on May 9, 2008 at 8:08 AM | link to this | reply

Everythings a job, most just limit our potienal
or we achieve success for someone else. Sounds like you are on the right track to me, and ya know what they say about "the second time around"! Find your quite place, do what you Love, save gas (it doesn't pay to commute anymore!) and save your sanity. But keep up the good work! Solita  

posted by ace2inspire on May 7, 2008 at 6:02 AM | link to this | reply

I had a "real job" once

and I loved it. The office, the salary, the feeling of being someone 'important'.

But writing fiction is so much more rewarding, both personally and professionally. It's hard road, but I'll keep going.

And you should too--it's not easy, but it'll be worth it in the end!

posted by Sira890 on May 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM | link to this | reply

It is good that you are doing what you love - writing!  Life is about fulfilment, and if you were to take the "regular job", you might not feel fulfilled...this feeling of being unfulfilled usually spills out onto one's family and makes them unhappy too.  And good for you for keeping on with your novel - success is achieved through persistence!

aha_310

posted by aha_310 on May 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM | link to this | reply

Commutes on a train - you don't have to drive - sound like good places to
think or observe...but not to actually write, I'm sorry to say....

posted by WindTapper on May 4, 2008 at 7:26 AM | link to this | reply

hello my dear.....

posted by __Purple_Mermaid11__ on May 4, 2008 at 2:39 AM | link to this | reply

I think many writers' best novels are their first, and done for money.

Not always either or both, but often so. Osmtime it is their third or fourth, but money is the propeller

Then the publisher says "OK, while the iron's hot, what can you give me fast?". Out comes the backstory and research.....old drafts...high school notebook covers...

posted by majroj on May 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM | link to this | reply

I'm intimidated and intrigued.
It's such a scary haunted house who could resist going inside?  You had the guts to do it a long time ago, so there's no turning back.  I read Stephen King's "On Writing" and he sounded a lot like you.  Yeah, complete psychopath.

posted by CunningLinguist on May 3, 2008 at 4:28 PM | link to this | reply

I like how you say it up front! I admire the fact that you continue to strive to balance all that is going on in your life. I think the novel will be much better because of another write!   sam

posted by sam444 on May 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM | link to this | reply

Your blog today explains why most novelists of yore, at least the ones

who were published and became well known, were independently wealthy. If a woman doesn't have to be grubbing for dollars, tending to kids, running a house, she can afford to take trips to do research, spend hours in a library or online. She can sit down at a desk and put words on the screen, go while the words are flowing, edit and regroup at will.  It's tilting at windmills to attempt fiction with all you've got to do.

And yet there you are, moving ahead, keeping on... Way to go! 

posted by Pat_B on May 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM | link to this | reply