Don't Quit Your Day Job, Get Laid Off Instead.

Don't Quit Your Day Job, Get Laid Off Instead.

Being a writer in these dismal financial times can be tough. Taking time off or out to write a book that has no guarantee of bringing in income can seem like a crazy and incredibly selfish thing to do. It's even more tough when you're trying to bring home the (turkey) bacon and instead you get laid off. Like I was today. On the plus side for me, it's supposed to be a "temporary layoff" and they hope to have us all hired back in in about a month or so. But for the next month, I am unemployed again. ::sigh::

So feeling pretty bummed out today, I took Mollie out for a three-months old photoshoot. And you guys get to see the fruits of that labor!












I call this one her "Madonna" pose. It reminds me of all those statues of the Virgin Mary.




I love this shot! She was actually crawling towards me and was making this hilarious face!

How can I be sad and depressed with this little face to look at?

So in the meantime, I'm going to try as hard as I can to get book two off and rolling. I finished outlining a few days ago so now all that is left is to write the silly thing. And now i've got time to do it.

Any guesses on how much book I can write until I'm re-hired? I'm going for 30k words. I'm thinking the book itself is going to end up around 60k, so roughly half the book? I can do that. Especially now that it's been outlined. Unless that outline changes, as it is apt to do... but I digress.

I've also got tons of stuff that needs doing in the next few days:

-Make a ringbearer pillow for Nicki's wedding
-Watch Mollie's dad's and mom while my aunt and brother go to Vegas
-finish my family scrapbook for the reunion on saturday
-go to the reunion on saturday
-Nicole is visiting Monday-Tuesday
-Clean up my room so Nicole has somewhere to sleep
-Remember to water garden everyday so my green peppers don't die...
-put together and use our new vaccumn

And that's just in the next few days... hopefully i'll have time for writing in there somewhere!

I was feeling kind of awkward today anyway, as I finished Harry Potter and The Extended Camping Trip The Deathly Hollows on my iPod yesterday and today I had to start something else. After over 100 hours of Harry Potter, it felt strange to listen to something else.

I think i've decided to write this second novel in 3rd person, like the Harry Potter books are written. Tinkers is written in first and it was so tough to get some of those scene's in the right perspective. I like what Rowling has done in her novels using 3rd person and I can only hope that mine turns out that well done.