Kristi Cramer's Blog: Bounded in a Nutshell - Posts Tagged "time-to-write"

One more month on the road and then I'll be home! I've been trying to convince my hubby that I need a chance to try writing for a living.

If I don't stay home and focus on my craft, or perhaps more pertinent, marketing my work, then I will never know if it is possible.

He keeps going back and forth. We agreed at one point that I could try it for six months, but now he is back to saying three. Then he says he wants to go back to driving local, which would be nice but would likely require me to get a job outside the home, since we won't be bringing in as much money.

I guess for the time being, I'm sticking with my plan of making a go of a career. I know I have the skills, and plenty of stories that are bouncing around in my head, waiting to be told. I have a plan. I just need the time!

As an additional source of income, I will be setting up shop as a proof reader. I am good at catching errors that others miss - as long as it isn't my own work. I offered notes for free on some already-published books, and those authors sent me love letters.

I will be taking a couple classes to brush up on punctuation and grammar rules, but in the meantime I have a definite skill-set to offer for reasonable prices. It is my intention to make myself affordable to self-pub authors.

More to come on this, later. If you think you might be interested in seeing some of my work, message me or comment here, and I will figure out how to show you, or perhaps you can try me out on a small sample of your writing.

One more month. Just gotta breathe and get it done. Then we will see.