Monday, May 24, 2021

I Totally Know What I'm Doing

 I know I promised terrible cover attempts on here, but we are doing mock ups with art from royalty-free sites, and I'd have to buy the art if I want to post it, and I'm not totally sure that's what I want to use yet. But someday soon!

In other news, I sort of... quit my job. I mean, I still have another six weeks, four of which are vacation/personal days, and then two weeks where I either train the next person or fix everything that broke during my vacation and write some more documentation.

My goal here is to take at least a year off and try to get my writing career off the ground. Am I making enough money at this point to support myself? Ha ha, absolutely not! In fact, I'm making negative money when you factor in covers, editing, software, etc. But I have enough savings to live off for at least a year, which gives me some time to start building things up.

Sometimes I do have the confidence of a mediocre white man!

Various family members kept referring to me as "retired" over the weekend, but I consider myself to be living in Schrödinger's paradox -- I'm either a full-time author or I'm unemployed. I won't know until sometime next year. Then I might need to get another day job, but I'll worry about it then.

In the meantime, I intend to have a lot of fun!


Close-up of grey cat sniffing a yellow flower.
Guido finds this flower suspicious

5 comments:

Hilary said...

I'm super proud of this choice, FYI. And also living vicariously through you and also deeply confident in your ability to do this. Go go go!

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

Thank you! Step one should probably be to stop browsing the internet and get back to writing... :)

Hilary said...

Hush your mouth surely that's not how any of this works. :)

Route 8 said...

This is exciting and a smart move!!

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

Thanks! I don't know about smart, but I'm going to claim it's necessary. And definitely exciting!