I don't know why but it's bugging me that I said I would be working overtime and left a sort of "see you later" thing. The overtime got pushed back because they hired some temps, to save money. I'm hoping I get some of that extra cash in the next three weeks before I quit because I'm stashing most of every paycheck into my savings, and they are not doing me any favors by sending me home early.
Anyway, I feel better just saying to the wind here that I'm still counting the days until I leave that parking lot for the last time, and that I wasn't just blowing smoke. I still want to quit, take a couple of days to do nothing, then dig into my writing elbow deep.
My main problem involves the logistics of what to do with a finished manuscript if I'm able to print one out and hold it in my hands. I've checked on line, checked out books, asked people, talked to a publisher.....who keeps calling me so often and sending me emails that I feel like they are just wanting money. Well, of course they do.
But I want to write and eventually make money--not spend money and end up with 20 copies of a book that may as well be a used non-winning lottery ticket.
So the main thing I have to do is find out the best, cheapest and most effective way to publish a book, and not have it be just a time-wasting joke.
I do remember that a couple of people here said they would help me with advice--CreativeWoman for one. And I will hopefully be bugging her a bit with a question here and there before winter is over. And if anyone reads this and has a good tip for me----in answer to the question of what you really do if you write a book and have little money--then I'm bending my ear toward the computer and turning down my music so I can hear it.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for reading.
(the dreaming wombat with itchy fingers)
