Nobody pays me enough per word for this to make financial sense if money were the only reason. I write because I write, full-time job and two kids and sometimes no sleep included.
The job that pays the bills
I have a full-time job during the day. The books happen after it, not instead of it. Writing was never going to be the plan that replaced the plan; it became the thing I do on top of the plan, because it turns out I cannot not do it.
Writing is the only room that is fully mine
Between a full-time job and two kids under eight, every hour of my day belongs to someone else’s schedule: a meeting, a gymnastics class, a baseball practice. The page is the one place nobody is asking me for anything. I get to decide what happens there.
You don’t need permission to call yourself a writer
I spent years calling it “something I do for fun” before I let myself say “I’m a writer” out loud. You don’t need a book deal, a full-time schedule, or anyone’s approval to claim it. You need pages. That’s the whole bar.
Why you should too
Not because it will make you money, maybe it will, eventually, mine did, but slowly. Because there is a specific kind of clarity that only shows up when you’re making something, and most adults go years without touching it. Writing is one of the cheapest ways back to it.
From a self-pub + traditionally published author
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