Day 99

Don’t give up your day job.

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OK, I know some of you do, and lock yourself away until the next bestseller is written, but that’s only an option if you saved up a million dollars so you could take the year off.

And if you are like me, I’d probably be out partying every day rather than put words on paper. Sometimes it is easier to just party.

However, for the more serious of us, our day job could work in our favour in several ways. Firstly, it gives us time away from the project so that we can dwell on how the story might progress the moment we get back in the door at home.

Besides that, the job may be so utterly stultifying that you can have the time to work through plotting and planning during the day, and writing by night.

There again you might have exactly the job that provides the inspiration for writing the story, and it is very useful.

That aspect worked for me because I was in the exact place that was a company like the one I was writing about, in a remote location, on an island with isolation and native people. And I had photos of the operations running since 1898.

All the more reason to seriously consider whether or not to give up your day job.

Oh, and there is one other thing. If you’re not living with your parents, you still need to pay the bills.