Author Part-Time

I was reading Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler's Life Lessons today, and I was faced with I question I hadn't answered yet. Am I interested in pursuing writing full time?

The answer is no. In Ross and Kessler's chapter on play, they discuss the importance of recognizing when you are turning one of your favorite hobbies into complicated, energy-exhausting work.

There is a danger that I can turn the thing I love (writing) into a daily burden, and I am not willing to do that.

As a result, I will continue to write and market, but at my own pace.

There are lots of things to do, people to meet, places to go and markets to attack, but if I attempt to swallow the elephant whole, I'm gonna hate myself for doing this... for becoming what I've always wanted to be... an author.

In the interest of maintaining balance, I may cut blogging down to three times a week so that I can use the time already set aside for blogging to podcast.

And later, I may move some other things around to accommodate for others, so that I can have some rest at the end of the day.

Everybody needs to have a break. I am 100% not exempt.

And that's for real.