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Vanessa Eden
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Sep 23, 2013 11:51AM
If this is out of line, please accept my apologies in advance...if you are not an author by profession, then what do you do for a living? has your profession ever impacted your writing?
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I have done many things for work, and all of it has affected my writing. Janitor.
Taught tenth graders how to build things.
Trail builder.
Wilderness Guide.
Firefighter/EMT
and now, Furniture mover.
Especially the guiding part allowed me to write realistic wilderness landscapes and survival scenes. Firefighting helped me write fire scenes and taught me a lot about realistic injuries, building construction, and fire behavior.
Teaching and guiding also taught me a ton about the teenage psyche. and my own I suppose.
Good question!
High-school teacherStay-at-home Mom
Yes, both have impacted my writing in various ways:
Negative impact: Never enough time to write
Positive impact: Life experiences that make my writing far more vibrant and interesting and vivid
F.F my husband is an EMT/ firefighter. you have done many great things in doing that work among the other jobs you have had! :) Good luck in your writing! ;)
I suppose I should answer my own question.I am a nursing technician and I specialize in rehabilitation aswell as hospice.
My job hasn't only impacted my writing but my life. I see death differently than most people I think. I am considered morbid by most but it is my dark world view that has made me brave enough to be happy. Think of Tim Burton...his dark worlds are pleasant, that is my mind.
I told some Co workers that we are the black angels of death, if you see me comming then you are dying, you just don't know it yet.
Ooh I adopted my daughter(she was three days old ) at a few weeks shy of forty....as a single momI worked at the L A Times for almost 19 years mostly in the entertainment section.
Every fall (because I didn't own a car) I traveled out of the country...usually on my own. Mongolia, Russia, London
, Bangkok.
Definitely these things have impacted my life. But what I was as a child growing up in Burbank, who my parents and brothers were...these things were just as important as my life choices as an adult.
I worked for the federal government for 12 years...received lots of great training there, but not a lot of chance for creative writing. But it was the struggle of it all--wanting to stay home and write instead of going to work in a cubicle--that gave me the drive to finish my first novel.
I was a stay-at-home mom for three years, but now I'm a hostess. It makes it hard to schedule time to write (during the day the kids are loud, and I work most evenings), but my job motivates me to keep going so that someday I won't need it, and it helps me meet interesting characters along the way.
Police officer for 14 yrs now financial advisor for 16 yrs and counting. Do most of my writing between 10pm - 2am. Crap, time to get back at it.
I'm with D.L. I do most of my writing between 10pm-2am. It's the only time I get to myself after the rest of the house has finally wandered off to bed. I work for a... shall we say... major telecom company, and there's barely enough time during the "normal" day to breathe. So you etch out a little place for you to do your thing, and you do it. Persevere, cross your fingers, and don't give up...
I have had many different jobs over the years. Horseback riding aide, group home aide for people with mental disorders, retail, jeweler, security at a chemical company, and now a campus police officer for the past 8 1/2 years. I also have been to school for video production and have a B.A. in Forensic Psychology. I'm currently at the halfway point to a B.A. in Art Therapy. Have these things affected my writing? Absolutely. Not nearly enough time to write as much as I want. However, the various experiences I've had in the workforce have influenced my writing, giving it a more realistic perspective. They say to write what you know. Add a little fiction and you have something that is unique.
Right now I am unemployed but if not then I like to consider myself as an author. When I do find a job I only hope it doesn't effect my writing. One of the reasons I have had so much time to write as of late is because its all I do.
Crimefighter.Pros: gives me a slew of interesting things to write about after every latest adventure.
Cons: never have any time to actually sit down and write about adventures since I'm spending the majority of the time trying to recover from latest beatings.
