I won’t deny that I have had some hard days since I was laid off in November.  Like many of you, I find some of my identity in what I do.  Prior to November 14th my identity included being gainfully employed.  After, it didn’t. I remember telling myself that this was the perfect opportunity to get some writing done and it is.  I just haven’t quite developed the routine to do so.  I’m working on it though. Things have started to turn around the past couple days.  I’ve wanted to do a podcast for months now but have been putting it off.  As of today, I have a solid idea for a podcast that I have begun to develop.  I […]

I suspect every writer out there has had issues with time management at one point or another.  I’m certainly not immune to the problem although, up to now, it has only been an occasional trouble. I’ve always done my writing in between family, job, scout leader duties, soccer coach duties, church obligations and various fundraiser activities.  Somehow, despite being busy, I was always able to get the writing done.  Granted, some days I had to settle for 500 words instead of 2,000 but I was still making progress. That changed on the 14th of November; I was laid off from my job.  Suddenly I had ALL this free time to devote to writing.  Except I’m struggling to get it done […]

For those of you who have been following me, you know that the past couple weeks have been tough.  The biggest event (although not the only one) was the loss of my job via company-wide lay-off.  Not surprisingly, there were days when I didn’t feel like writing (or doing much of anything for that matter).  Still, I knew I had to get my 50,000 words written for NanoWriMo just like I knew that writing would be therapeutic. So I continued to write.  Not everyday and some days I didn’t come close to my 2,500 word-per-day goal, but I kept moving forward. While I was writing I was also reaching out to my network of friends to try and get leads on […]