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I received an E-Mail today from a friend who feels like a voyeur when she reads my postings. I told her not to worry because I'm completely comfortable sharing what I share.

So it raises the question, do you ever feel uncomfortable reading someone's blog? Or, when it comes to writing your own blog?

Getting back to my friend, though, she also suggested I make my writing goals realistic. They are. I know I'm good enough to have a lengthy and satisfying career writing. I've only been working on this career since 2000. That's only seven full years. I'm 35, not 71, when it would start to look unlikely. But even then, if I'm still trying to get in, I'll still keep at it. I am good enough. This I know.

Now, I don't know how she might take this reply, or the reply via E-Mail I sent her, but, I'm not replying angrily. I believe in myself and I will not quit believing in myself.

I once quit a fulltime job to focus on my writing. I'm not going to do that now. Not that I have a fulltime job right now, but, I do have a part-time job starting on Sunday and by the by, I'll have another job or two and be working fulltime. So where is this going? Umm, give me a minute to get my head around what I'm saying. Ahh, I'll work fulltime at one, two or three jobs until my writing can begin to pay its share. Slowly thereafter, it will pay for more and more. And one day, it will pay for everything, through my own company, which will grow, when I begin growing it to any work I do for others.

This I know. Do I know it like I know that today is Friday, no, I don't. Maybe I'm completely wrong about my future. But then again, I don't believe that either. I am going to make it in writing. It is just a matter of time and better effort.

Of course, sadly, I haven't even sent my work out to even one editor, so...umm, lost again...I have a long way to go before I should even think of being on the wrong path. Writing is something  that can be done long past other careers. So, I'm slow getting started, but...I still have multiple decades in which to have a career. So I ain't quitting this anytime soon. Or ever. This is not a hobby, and never will be. It is for a career. Even if it is a carrer that lasts three years in my late nineties. But that, that's not going to happen. I'll be there long before then.

Thanks eh, my friend. You gave me something to write about. Cool. And I'm not sitting here gnashing my teeth at you, or wagging my finger. I know I'm good enough and that is that. But thanks.

So, what else might I post about today? And I ask this because I'm not in any hurry to go and do something else right now. I'll be watching tv at 17:30, which is 45 minutes from now, but...until then...or for a bit longer more (:-p), I'm looking to fill in the time.

Not that you can help me now, even if you were inclined to. I'd have to post and you would have to read it and reply to it wherein I would get notified and post again. So that isn't happening.

Hmm...killing time, writing with "a weak purpose", that's always my strong suit. Umm, not. So, I guess I'll go now and do something else. But one last time, thanks eh, for your timely E-Mail.

 

Charles Petrie