I've been thinking a lot about how I want my future to look like, so this week's blog is a little exploration of what I'm not doing and what I hope to do in the future.

I have quietly come to the decision that I want to work toward becoming a full-time writer or creative. I’ve been thinking about this for a long-time and have been prioritizing my goals over the past few quarters to reflect this. At first, I wasn’t sure if this was even a tenable goal since my author income was pretty low after I derailed my marketing and such during the great burnout of…

The city of Savannah shut down tourism a week ago. That means all my jobs are currently on lockdown. Today, our mayor, Van Johnson, issued a shelter in place order for the entire city. Unnecessary travel has been officially curtailed. That means I’m not going to be getting out much over the next few days (possibly a week or more). In the meantime, I could be leveling up a Guild Wars 2 character.…

So, this week has been a lot of fun! In between job searches, I put in a lot of time writing in order to reach my 25,000-word-a-week goal. Did I make it? Of course I did, and with two days to spare! As of this very second, I’m sitting at 25,128 words. I wrote an additional chapter in Love Like We Do (side a) thanks to a suggestion from a pre-reader, and spent the rest of my time writing six and a…

I Don’t Want to Be an Author

I hadn’t actually thought much about being an author. Like, being an “I do nothing but write for a living” author. In the last couple years, as I worked retail while also writing my book, I thought maybe being a full-time author would be nice. Nothing like retail to make you embrace your introverted nature. I imagine drinking tea in my pajamas and writing beautiful things while everyone else is…

But what if we were both full-time writers? What would that even be like? (more…)