Friday, July 31, 2009

Fiction, non-fiction, ad copy....

I have a writing hierarchy in terms of how I'd like to some day earn a living with this writing business:

1. Writing fiction and poetry.

2. Writing commercial non-fiction.

3. Writing copy for advertising.

I've spent most of my time so far focusing on my fiction. But lately I've been thinking a lot about what happens when I transition out of my current day job (in a few years). Handsome and I would like to work out a way for me to stay home with our kids without completely leaving the job market. I'm working on a second day job, but finally it occurred to me that the most logical thing would be to do what I want the most -- to write.

But getting to a point where I could make this into a day job... oy. I feel so overwhelmed by the idea of trying to pursue this seriously... not just the dream of selling my novels, but the idea of writing historical articles and women's health shorts and even, if it pays the mortgage, ad copy. Man, I am really struggling just to refine the query for that piece on the Rabbits of Ravensbruck that I described in the post below. This is hard frickin' work!

But then, I guess even the dream job ends up being work, in the end. :)

1 comment:

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