When Writing Isn’t Your First Career and You Can’t Afford to Mess Up
How to improve your odds.
Time moves quickly.
I spent more than 20 years practicing law. And I was employed doing other things before that. Plus, there were all the years getting my education.
Before you know it — you wake up one morning to find an invitation from AARP and a catalog for menopausal women in your mailbox. There’s nothing you can do to prepare mentally for that.
What do you do when time and money are running out, and you find yourself starting a new career in writing?
Some people find themselves in that situation much sooner than I did. Maybe they just graduated from college and found out that the job they expected to work in wasn’t anything like they anticipated, and they need to do something different.
For whatever reason, if you decide to work for yourself as a writer, there is a way to improve the likelihood that you will succeed and spend the rest of your days being happy, writing, and making money while doing it.
It’s much easier to succeed at something if you have a blueprint for the future.
My 12th grade English teacher always said that planning is the key to success. She was right.
