Don’t quit your day job, Miss Thang

Thinking…

…dreaming…

…wondering…

…what it would be like to quit my day job so I could edit, finish, publish & market my memoir in the next two years.

Conventional wisdom says NEVER QUIT YOUR DAY JOB FOR WRITING (and I’d probably add ESPECIALLY if you have yet to make a decent living writing all ready).

And who feels like a big, giant ungrateful dork for even considering leaving “a day job”that is so much more than a day job, and so much more than “just” a career that pays the bills?

 And which I happen to love?

(me).

I’m all for embracing change and risk for the sake of growth.

But on this one, I am downright torn.  I think about it all. the. time.

The book can wait, it’s not going anywhere, but it’s right there always on my brain.

I wish I felt brave enough to say I am going to finish and market the book so that “I am happening” to the book.  Versus, my plugging away at the book, perhaps —in my wonderful little fairy tale world— it picks up steam and then I’m frantically trying to figure out how to make marketing a reality and am again considering leaving my day job.  And that whole process “happened to me.”

I don’t want it to happen to me, I want to happen to it…

…with a robust strategic marketing plan laid out with gusto!

photo credit: The Brave Girls Club (my new favorite website for brave women) =)