Last night I faced facts: I don’t have time to write for About.com and live my life, much less work on my memoir.
So far I’ve spent at least 20 hrs in the last week working for them, and my life has been insane. I’m exhausted and I have no time to even shower. It’s just like when I was working at the clinic 20 hrs a week and teaching 4 classes in the fall. I decided I can’t do this. It’s not worth it. I was so proud of possibly having a paying writing gig and such a great forum, but I have a day job and a life and I don’t want to destroy it.
So instead I’m going to focus on my memoir and poetry, prayer and devotionals, the things I was writing when I was an MFA student in Creative Writing and loved it so much. And I’m going to stop worrying about the commercial value of what I’m doing. I’ll do the medical work to support myself–it pays way better than writing things my heart isn’t in.
I hope you find what you love to do and are able to do it.
Karin (bushiethepoet)
