What Are You Grateful For?

 

                                                                                                                                                                                Life is strange, but right after I posted this, I landed a job working as a ghostwriter. If some of you were wondering what happened to all those books I promised, this is what happened :) While the pay is not exorbitant, it is respectable, which works for me at the moment. But the best part is, I'm getting to learn the process of writing commercial fiction in a genre I love, while honing my craft! I can work from anywhere; I am not required to step out the house for days which is an added bonus since I'm an introvert; I communicate with my employers via email only which means bye-bye to all those anxiety-inducing phone calls!

Till date, I have written one short story, one novella, and one full-length novel for my employers! And they want me to write six more full-length novels! As a ghostwriter, I am of course forbidden by contract about sharing the details of my work, and the work will not be published under my own name, but I was super thrilled that somebody liked my writing enough to hire me! Me!!! A newbie writer! 

 

The reason I held off talking about this for so many days is because of this (perhaps unreasonable) fear I have-- that it'll be taken away from me the minute I advertise about it. But, I have decided that I'm going to approach it with gratitude rather than fear.

When I decided to make this career shift of sorts all those months ago, I had decided that I wouldn't tell people I was a writer till I was making money from my writing. And not just $10 or $20 dollars a month which my books typically make on KDP with zero advertising (not even the word-of-mouth kind). 

 

To call myself a writer, I would need to be making at least enough to contribute to my half of running our household. 

I'm really, really, really happy and grateful that I'm now able to do this with my writing! I am very thankful that I'm learning so much as well.

Feel free to share what you are grateful for in the comments!

P.S- I am working on my own book as well, but at a much slower pace :)