I’ve been working all day on finishing the revisions to Chapter 3 of my women’s fiction book and then typing in the copious revisions to the first three chapters. And you want to know what’s cool…I don’t even think about how many hours I put into it. I don’t watch the clock like I’ve done at every job where I had to be in my office during certain hours of the day. I just love the freedom writing at home allows me, even if I end up working way more hours than I did when I had a “day job”. That’s because this is what I want to do for a living. Granted, I’m depending on hubby’s salary and a bit of freelance writing on my part to pay the bills now, but I’m hoping the time I’m spending writing stories will pay off in a great fiction writing career. And I think the big leap into writing full time has paid off in other ways. I have more time to exercise, thus helping me improve my health. I have more time to read, a casualty when you become a writer. Writers start out as devoted readers, but when there are only so many hours in the day, you can either use them to write or read when a job is taking up 8-10 hours of the 24. It’s been great to read books, newspapers, magazines, items that used to stack up until they were in danger of falling over and injuring someone. I just hope that I can start selling books soon so that this life I’m currently enjoying can continue. Otherwise, come this fall you may see me behind the cash register at Target or Barnes & Noble. 
Fun for the day: Check out the crazy picture on my buddy Stephanie Rowe’s blog.
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