5 Excuses Not to Write
Why would you want to be a writer anyway?
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
― Roald Dahl
Right after my Medium Milestone — my first 500 followers — I kinda stopped publishing. It’s been weeks now and I have no excuse … or do I?
Keeping up the habit of writing and publishing regularly and staying focused on your writing career is quite hard to do when you have a life as well. Of course, writing should be your life. And you have no idea how much I want it to be. But I have to live as well. Or rather, make a living. And since I’m not there yet with my writing, I have to do something else to earn my income.
As a freelance editor, I have been particularly lucky landing a principal who keeps me occupied — and earning — for the bigger part of my work week. Though I am occasionally required to visit clients, I can do most of my work from home. I actually like the work, even more since I have been entrusted with an important new project. How’s that for an excuse? There are only so many hours in a day and I am nowhere near as productive as I’d like to be.
I keep telling myself it’s all a work in progress, this new writing life. But that in itself, of course…
