Updates and Info About Me

For those of you not in the know I wrote a non-fiction manuscript for National November Writing Month this past fall.

I decided to believe Jeff Goins a while ago when, You Are A Writer came out but still book authorship is not blog posting.

Having a manuscript, even one that needs 20K more words and heavy editing, is a thrill unlike any other in the world let me tell you. 

I am not even sure it has sunken in fully. I can’t really bring myself to touch it.

Meanwhile I have begun hanging out in writers circles. These are often filled with fiction writers. Much love my crafty cousins in literature. It is just not my genre of choice at the moment.

To this end there are writing prompts that come along to inspire those who create worlds. It can leave those of us who just report on things we have seen feeling a bit on the outs.

Today in a group for speakers that I am in a prompt came in the form of a question about our lives.

Most answers were a term, a sentence or two. I wrote 200+words. 

Maybe the writer in me is itching her way out. 

Perhaps it just takes the right stimuli.

Whatever the reason I have decided to share those words with you and invite you to the FB page where a couple of other excerpts from the manuscript are posted.

I joined GoodReads, WattPad and some other sites but I have not settled on where if anywhere the full story might come out before it is edited and sent off to be published somewhere.

You will have to keep in touch to keep in the know.

Question:  Can you tell me what frustrations you have experienced while working full time.

The group setting set the context of the question as signs or reasons to embark on a self employment path. 

This could start with a journey of self discovery since for some it is not clear cut what they should be doing at the same time they realize what they are doing is not working.

My Answer: reminded me of the story I am endeavoring to tell with this first book I am working on. Stories that did not quite make it onto this blog or the Single Mom blog about my life and choices that I have made based on the way I want to live.

I have been busy being a mother most of the last 20 years. All in all I think I worked full time outside of the home 9months only. I mostly worked part time so the trade off is that I have never had a career.
Eventually I started doing some Nanny work and got into a position with a family that was 50hrs a week plus.

I did not feel underpaid although I was, or over worked until the end when things were breaking down. I was working for another single mom and she was in retail so the hours were crazy.

Usually I like random odd hours and the flexibility of not having to do hair and make-up or be (fully) awake to be getting paid was the trade off.

Still when it was ending the fractures started to show.

When I worked full time I actually did 40hrs a week at one job and 15 at another across town with no car. I have always picked jobs I liked and only worked where I was celebrated not just tolerated so working has always been win-win for me.

My last job was in a yarn shop and I knit. Talk about getting paid to do what you love. The worst thing about it was doing mornings (10am) when I am a night owl. lol

Two co workers quit back to back almost, within about 2 weeks and I wound up working 50hrs plus again all of a sudden while living out of town.

Commute should be a 4 letter word because I dislike it so much. lol

This job literally killed my last car. The casualties of working. OUCH