When It’s Time to Get Selfish with Your Writing Dream

As I watched sales trickle in during Launch Week for A Writer’s Bucket List, I felt like I was livin’ The Dream — I made enough that week to pay rent for three months (my rent isreally low, not a huge brag). What a rush it was to create something purely of my imagination and reap rewards large enough to live on, rather than scrape together client work and add on hours to make extra money!

Yet, I realized something as I counted sales and fantasized about telling my clients to shove their work u...