Take Control of Your Writing Life

The life of a writer has many unpredictable elements to it.

One unpredictable element is the seasons a writer goes through.

You just never know when you’ll get a string of rejections and nothing seems to be happening to your writing career. It feels like winter.

And then suddenly a bunch of editors are interested in your manuscripts and the joys of summer are yours.

We may not be able to control the seasons we’ll go through as a writer, but we CAN control what we do during these different seasons. We can choose to be like a deciduous tree and shut down and wait until something miraculous happens…

Or we can choose to be like an evergreen tree and keep on keeping on through the winter until spring comes again.

Over the years I’ve had various times of winter as a writer. Writing has been my part-time career (I’ve been a full-time Mom as my main career). I’ve earned a part-time income for the past 20 years of $20,000 or more per year. Many years it’s been significantly higher than that. How have I maintained this income even during winter seasons?

I’ve followed the strategy of what I call the Triple Crown of Success. I’ll tell more about that in the next post.