Day Seventy Two: Writer (Part Duex)

I am starting to take this writing thing seriously.

Remember my graduate professor who told me that the only career I need to take seriously right now is my writing career? Well, I’m taking his words to heart and finally starting to treat this thing as more than just a hobby.

I’ve always been an avid writer, but the writing I really excelled at was doing school work. A lot of people out there are giving me the crazy stink eye right now, but I seriously work better with deadlines, pressure and grades. Okay, maybe not the grades, but the first two for sure. But the other thing I’ve realized is that I need to start diversifying my writing. I need to write more than just fiction and fantasy. I need to work on scholarly stuff too.

So my boyfriend and I came up with a schedule:

·         Every Monday I will present a proposal for a scholarly article. It will be finished by Friday and edited by Sunday.

·         Every Tuesday I will update my sci-fi serial on Reddit, Radioactive.

·         Every night I will do my daily blog.

·         And each week I need to write at least three pages in my novel, the sequel to Cornerstone Café.

It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it really is. Especially doing academic related writing without having any academic basis for it in the real world. This is like asking a high school kid to write a book report over the summer for funnsies.

But I am going to work my ass off until I am a respected writer.

Challenge to my Readers:

There is something in your life right now that you love and consider a hobby, but secretly wish was something you could spend all day doing. Start working on it seriously. Even if it seems silly, if you treat it with dedication it will flourish. Like my friend Amy, who once knit a pair of tiny socks every day for a year.