Stop telling yourself you can't write your novel because you have a dayjob.
That's a video of our special guest Felicia Sullivan, explaining how she managed to write her new memoir The Sky Isn't Visible from Here while working a full-time. It was a risky strategy, but paid off in the end.
How about you? Do you have any stories about sneaking writing work at the dayjob? Put your story in the comments and I'll collect the best sneaky writing stories at the end of the week.
In the meantime, stay tuned for the rest of Sullivan's interview this week.
Nothing too sneaky about this, but when I started working at my last job I'd regularly slip out of the office in the afternoon for 30 minutes, go to a coffee shop and write. I rationalized it by the fact that I took only 10 minutes for lunch, brown-bagging at my desk, so the company "owed" me some extra time. At my current job, however, my workload is heavier and I can't get away from the office as much. And though I still brown-bag, my lunch time has greatly expanded thanks to the ever-growing list of blogs I read while I eat - so I can't use that old rationalization any more.
Posted by: Pete | February 19, 2008 3:53 PM | Permalink to Comment