A New Year and Updates

I have taken quite a break from updating this blog, but I haven't stopped writing or playing around with story ideas. November and December is our busiest time at the call center. Now that I've had time to breathe, I've been focusing on taking my writing skills to the next level and applying for positions that will combine my writing and technical skills. Applying for a new job is a full time job in itself! There is definitely a demand for people with technical writing skills and even though I've been working on job hunting for two months now, I'm encouraged at the new direction this will take me.

I believe that writing shouldn't be a phase. It should be something that you live, breathe, and eat, even if the main focus of your energy has to be somewhere else. At first, I think I got caught up in the glamour of the idea that eventually I could sell a novel and receive a fat royalty check that would allow me to do nothing but write full time. There are a lucky few that can do that. But I have learned over the years, that if I find an hour out of my day to let my fingers fly over the keyboard and write something out, I receive the same satisfaction that those fancy published authors do. That's pretty rad.