Hey, all!

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am sitting here, my fingers freezing, but looking out the window at a world covered in snow and ice.  I want to go back to bed and maybe I will, since I was out late last night (for great reasons, but this old lady gets tired, ya’ll) and my kids are in school for another couple hours…

But here’s the thing.

I also need to write. Because if I don’t write it, I can’t sell it. If I don’t write it, the superfabandgroovy Laura Bradford can’t put it out there in the world for editors to buy. If I don’t write it, ain’t nobody gonna give me any money for it!

And no, I don’t write solely for the money. Heck. If I wanted to do anything just for the bucks I’d pick something other than novel writing. But I don’t do this as a hobby, it’s not something I toss off in between bon-bons and soap operas. Writing is my job, it’s my career, it’s something I love enough to sacrifice for!

So, if I want to make it in this business, I have to make it (the writing.) I have to actually produce. I can’t sit around on my ever-widening bum and moan and complain and eat thistles because nooooobody’s going to buyyyyy my storrrryyyyyy…I have to do the work. I have to make the effort. I have to get up early and go to bed late and not watch t.v. and not make quilts or play the Sims2 all day!

I mean, life’s about balance, and I will always find time for sleep and the Sims, but really, there’s nobody who’s going to do my work for me. My editors aren’t going to approve checks just ‘cuz they like me, and Laura B. as fab as she is, can’t sell books I haven’t written (well, technically she CAN but that’s because I’ve proven I *will* write them…and I had to do that buy actually finishing a whole bunch before I got to the point where I can sell on proposal and not on a full. It’s part of the way it goes.)

This falls on me. So as much as I’d like to crawl back under my blankets in the soft, warm, flannel cavern of my bed…I’m going to write today, darn it. I’m going to write and write and write some more! Because I want to MAKE IT in this business!

And I can’t make it…if I don’t make it.

As Ringo says, people: Peace and love, peace and love,

Megan