nYear 2019 begins with another year of weekly entries in the #MFRWAuthor 52-week blog challenge. Yes, I signed up for another year. We begin with the first prompt that asks why we write: for fun, profit, or some other reason.
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nWhen answering that question or a variation of it in past years, the answer boiled down to “If I don’t write, my brain will explode.” That remains true with regard to the fiction publish; however, I do write for a living which means that I write what my clients want. Such writing encompasses blogs, website content, white papers (i.e., technical papers, case studies), and fiction based on their plots and character descriptions.
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nTherefore, one might say that I write for both fun and profit. It’s not a bad way to live, although I do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time chasing down gigs.
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nSo, I begin with projects that are supposed to start this month. Some of them are paying projects. I got an early start on the western anthology, so there’s no rush to tackle that immediately. I do have a couple of ongoing projects that I’ll be resuming work on. Next week. This week I’m playing catch-up after taking an unplugged vacation over the holidays.
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n”Unplugged?” you echo in astonishment.
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nIndeed. I abandoned email and social media entirely. I did not watch videos online, although I did watch some TV. Mainly, I read. I read books printed on paper, books that needed nothing but light to deliver me into swashbuckling worlds of romance and derring-do. Due to the rainy weather, I generally stayed indoors, curled on the sofa with a drink at hand. A few times I roused my lazy self to cook dinner. I slept in.
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nLet’s face it: Adventure is all well and good, but it’s damned exhausting. I’d rather just imagine myself in it, rather than experience its discomforts and risks in real life.
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nHmmm. Maybe that’s why I write. Laziness and a disinclination to risk my comfort.n
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