The Life of a Writer

     The life of a writer can be different as night and day.  There is no two writer's that live exactly the same life.  For example:  If you are a writer and you have to leave your home each day to work 8 hours or more doing something else other than writing, and later in the day find time to write, this is your life when it comes to writing. This is usually extremely hard because your writing isn't supporting you as of right now, although you wish it were.  

     The other person is someone who has a job writing for a career because their writing is supporting them, this is generally the job that most writers want to have.  At least, for me, this is the one that I want. Don't get me wrong, people who write for a living have just as many challenges as the ones who go off to do another type of job throughout their day.  I'm sure many writers who work at this 100% will tell you that juggling time and attention to their writing on the home front can be just as difficult. When you are at home you are probably more relaxed and so you might have a tendency to get caught up in other things that don't have to do with writing.  And, if you are having writer's block, even worse.  Plus, let's not forget that the refrigerator is always calling you, or at least in my case, it does.

     Let's say you fall into scenario number one and you have to work outside your home doing something other than writing.  I'm sure you would agree this is extremely difficult because after working all day you come home generally tired and the last thing you want to do is write.  Yes, you might like writing and it might be something relaxing, but when you are tired from a long day it is generally the last thing you want to do.  When I work outside my home I have a tendency to write wherever I can in a note pad.  I usually take a bus to work so I will write on the bus, I will write during break time, I will write during lunch. Then at the end of the day, I will just have to transfer what I wrote to my computer.  I have also found that I write anytime I find myself waiting, such as; in doctor offices, bank lines, grocery market lines, etc. (you'll never see me without my handy, dandy notepad).

     So the life of a writer from where I sit is usually one where you basically live your life each day writing wherever you find the time, and that sometimes can even be in the bathroom. lol  

     In my next blog article, I am going to talk about the first thing I learned when I decided to self-publish on the Internet.

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