Wordy Wednesday: DAY JOB (and cute pooch)

Despite feeling like I never have enough time for fiction writing, here are three reasons I keep working as a freelance writer/marketing professional:

1. I work for trade book publishers, so my work is connecting other authors with their readership through booking appearances and/or writing promotional materials.  Because I'm a writer myself, I like to think I give the authors I support extra tlc, which all of us writers deserve :)

2. Sometimes I think if I had less to do, I might waste more time.  Pressure = butt-in-chair!


(Isn't he cute?  Expensive, but cute!)

3. My secretary recently ate something gravel and plastic-laden (vet thinks it might have been a piece of roofing shingle--don't ask 'cause I don't know), which cost mucho $$$ to "extract."  Regular checks are nice for paying vet bills, among other bills!

What are your three best reasons for punching the clock?  Or have you decided to take the plunge and write full time?  Share, share!

Wordy Wednesday: WHAT...?

It's Wednesday already?  I'd swear it was Monday about two seconds ago.  This week is flying by and filled with driving (football, cross country, soccer, play practice, band practice...).  I'm in this strange nether-world between having sent off revisions to my editor and not having time to get back to revising my next ms which I am LONGING to do.  Oh, I've spent the occasional half-hour at the computer tranfering my pages of notes-jotted-down-while-waiting-at-red-lights into the new ms.  But real, solid, three or four hour chunks of time to do the big things I want and need to do have proven elusive. WHAT am I going to do?  Answers...please...?