Comments on: Drip Dry Diva http://christine-merrill.com/2010/04/drip-dry-diva/ romance author Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Christine Merrill http://christine-merrill.com/2010/04/drip-dry-diva/comment-page-1/#comment-7020 Christine Merrill Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:22:47 +0000 http://christine-merrill.com/?p=5505#comment-7020 Odd jobs pretty wll sums up everything I did before writing. Even as a librarian, I was kind of a slacker. It wasn't until the last 9 months of my working life that I had a job that was full time with decent pay and benefits. I finally had the chance to grow up. And promptly turned and ran in the opposite direction. I couldn't hack it, and had quit in less than a year. Except for motherhood. I managed to keep up with that, all right. The pay is lousy, but you work from home. My advice to writers is, have some combination of these 3 things: an indulgent spouse with good health care, an inattentive boss who doesn't care that you are putting your energy into writing, or comfort with a low standard of living. Also, nerves of steel. And here is the best advice ever, from Patrick Rothfuss. Who strangely enough, also lives in Wisconsin. http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2010/02/fanmail-q-a-advice-for-new-writers/ Odd jobs pretty wll sums up everything I did before writing. Even as a librarian, I was kind of a slacker. It wasn’t until the last 9 months of my working life that I had a job that was full time with decent pay and benefits. I finally had the chance to grow up. And promptly turned and ran in the opposite direction. I couldn’t hack it, and had quit in less than a year.

Except for motherhood. I managed to keep up with that, all right. The pay is lousy, but you work from home.

My advice to writers is, have some combination of these 3 things: an indulgent spouse with good health care, an inattentive boss who doesn’t care that you are putting your energy into writing, or comfort with a low standard of living.

Also, nerves of steel.

And here is the best advice ever, from Patrick Rothfuss. Who strangely enough, also lives in Wisconsin.

http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2010/02/fanmail-q-a-advice-for-new-writers/

]]> By: tv guy http://christine-merrill.com/2010/04/drip-dry-diva/comment-page-1/#comment-7015 tv guy Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:49:31 +0000 http://christine-merrill.com/?p=5505#comment-7015 I wish I could write like you as Margaret Laurence once said "When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs." I wish I could write like you as Margaret Laurence once said “When I say “work” I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

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