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MayB

This is something you have wanted for a long time. You must apply yourself and go for the dream.

posted by Joe_Love on October 26, 2005 at 9:49 PM | link to this | reply

OK

I saved it into my journal

I guess it doesn't hurt to try to be a bit caring of my presentation,

Jo 

posted by brisbane_artist on October 19, 2005 at 12:57 AM | link to this | reply

brisbane artist, do you want to post the comment again and I can remove the one with the gremlins?

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 11:42 PM | link to this | reply

yuk

bad spelling in my last comment

sometimes I snatch a few minutes in between jobs

I should slow down,

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on October 18, 2005 at 11:40 PM | link to this | reply

avante gard

I am aiming to write full time as that way I can plan my days the way I want.

I work here in Brisbane amongst the street people.

None gets paid for that unless they become tied to the system.

Soooo I want to be paid to write so that I can do what I want.

I am quite taken by the romance link (Romantic Novels) I put up this morning because Trash Romance novels really take my fancy.

Can I...could I...introduce just a touch of healing through Trashy Pulp?

I work in gruops from the book "Women Who Love Too Much"

and "Facing Love Addicition"..."Healing The Shame That Binds You" 

So writing in a gentre that promulgates a lot of the addicitive stuff appeals.

Could I swing it all back the other way.  It is a bit like playing chess really.

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on October 18, 2005 at 5:49 PM | link to this | reply

Ahhhhhwell

we will be the winners when they escape.

Hey?

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on October 18, 2005 at 5:45 PM | link to this | reply

Brisbane artist.

I have several in me I think and it's staarting to get crowded in my head

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply

Avant-garde, thanks. You owe it to yourself to try. Writing is all I do these days, supplemented by a little teaching (about writing). It is not a secure line of work and sometimes it gets to me. I've already taken a big step out of secure employment and now I am trying to face up to another where if I want to focus on fiction there will no employment for a long while at least. I do see the point that some bloggers have made, such as Silvermoon7 that if I spent a little time every week doing something else that would buy time to write but I think I am useless at most other things and so I need to stick to my strengths.

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 5:03 PM | link to this | reply

MayB

I'm sort of that way, too. I would love to do the writing full time, with nothing extra. Somehow I always find a reason not to jump in with both feet.

posted by avant-garde on October 18, 2005 at 4:05 PM | link to this | reply

I suspected that

you had a book in you!

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on October 18, 2005 at 1:44 PM | link to this | reply

MilitaryWife, very true.

Having said that I did have as secure a job as anyone can have in this day and age and am about to sever the ties finally and this is at the heart of this stress

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 11:06 AM | link to this | reply

Dave, I believe this too. I love the postcard

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 11:04 AM | link to this | reply

Meringue, you should do it if you have this chance. Things can change very quickly

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 11:03 AM | link to this | reply

Ca88andra, I know struggling writers on three continents so I think it is widespread. In leaving behind a very secure life I knew it might come to this but of course I believed it wouldn't. I think that I have learned to survive on little so I may as well get writing

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 11:02 AM | link to this | reply

Silvermoon7, thank you for that. You have reinforced in me that I will push on. I would be crazy to try to do something else in which I have no skills and little experience as that would be harder and there would be no more guarantees of success than where I am now.

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 10:58 AM | link to this | reply

JohnMcnab or should I say MacNab, I know.

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 10:46 AM | link to this | reply

Jojostar, these situations go with the territory of taking risks. Many people are more risk averse than me but I have always found that something turns up when needed

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 10:44 AM | link to this | reply

ARGUS, in one sense I regard it as driving me to be creative. On the other sometimes I would just like it to be easy.

posted by Azur on October 18, 2005 at 10:42 AM | link to this | reply

MayB, it is not entirely an illusion

that something may come around when needed, because --

1. Necessity is the mother of invention
2. Fortuitousness happens if you're open to it
3. Serendipity grows if it is not squashed by rigidity.  ARGUS

posted by ARGUS on October 18, 2005 at 10:32 AM | link to this | reply

MayB

I believe things you always have exactly what you need. Sometimes I have to be reminded of that though.

posted by jojostar on October 18, 2005 at 10:13 AM | link to this | reply

MayB

I've been thinking lately of getting a job, like perhaps a Wal-mart greeter, as none of my skills are any good in this country, but I know that I would be procrastinating (which I am an expert at) and I would feel guilty for not writing.  All the best, MayB.

posted by johnmacnab on October 18, 2005 at 7:53 AM | link to this | reply

WRite that novel, May, while you still have the chance.  The may come sooner than you think where you'll lose that critical time, and have to devote the bulk of your time to something you don't enjoy--like being a shop assistant or a secretary--to keep your house and food on the table.  Additionally, as they say, pride goeth before a fall.  It might be time to admit that you need to do something else.  And you might find out that that something else is a lot less stressful than anything you've done so far, and allows for more creative flow into that novel at the end of the day, and might actually work out for you better than you could ever have hoped.  You CAN do something else.

posted by SilverMoon7 on October 18, 2005 at 5:38 AM | link to this | reply

I recently read an article where someone (I can't remember his name) stated that writers can never make a living in Australia, they can only every supplement their income. Interesting. I hate getting to the desperate stage with finances and yet I'm almost always there. If you can survive without other work, I say go for it. Write your novel. If you don't do it, you will never know.

posted by Ca88andra on October 18, 2005 at 2:49 AM | link to this | reply

I know the feeling....

I have not written anything in fiction because i need to keep the dollars rolling in.And when I read about you, I feel like a criminal, cos I am doing it to have something to call my own earnings, my husband earns enough and more for both of us....and I should really be doing what I am good at....fiction! You know, we all need to make that leap of faith...I am trying to make mine(they have really worked in previous cases) and I hope you make yours!

posted by Meringue on October 18, 2005 at 12:56 AM | link to this | reply

posted by _dave_says_ack_ on October 18, 2005 at 12:44 AM | link to this | reply

MayB

NO job is a guaranteed or secure in this day and age.  Do what brings you joy and the money will come.

posted by Bel_ on October 17, 2005 at 10:13 PM | link to this | reply

Hemlocker, thank you:-)

posted by Azur on October 17, 2005 at 10:12 PM | link to this | reply

Ok. Got it Majroj

posted by Azur on October 17, 2005 at 10:11 PM | link to this | reply

MayB

You have demonstrated success.  Belief in yourself and the rightness of what you are doing is a powerful instrument, not an illusion.   Hemlocker

posted by Hemlocker on October 17, 2005 at 9:48 PM | link to this | reply

Remember the tank and the foxhole.

posted by majroj on October 17, 2005 at 9:43 PM | link to this | reply