Me again.

You haven’t heard from me much because I spent January 2022-September 2023 traveling and packing up my life and traveling some more. I went to 14 countries! I got to experience freelance writer life, digital nomad life #laptoplifestyle #todaysoffice🌴, and the life of someone who lived out of her suitcase for a looooong time.

Now, I’m back from my adventures and my hustling is to a minimum, which I appreciate. I have a job and I go to it (I’m running late right now, actually, dammit), and my only hustle is peddling my books, of which I now have two, to agents and publishers.

When I was fresh out of college I got a job doing sales at Yelp (we didn’t call it telemarketing but that’s exactly what it was, but I still loved it, but that’s a long story for another day) and I had to pitch and sell my brains out. Now, as a writer, I still have to do that. But I mostly don’t get paid. It’s a labor of love. But it can be hard to balance what pays the bills and what you love, as I know you know. I’d like to write about this more. What I do in stolen minutes and hours gives me LIFE FORCE ENERGY for the rest of life, but it can be easy to let it slip from the list of priorities.

Comment with tips if you’ve found a balance. More to come! Off to labor!