Eventually, I’d like to get to a point where I can write pretty much full-time, augmenting my fiction with various articles or vice-versa. However, I don’t really want to give up my design and Flash work completely. There’s just too much interest and investment there to drop it.
I guess my ideal career would consist of me writing fiction for most of my time and then creating accompanying web sites and Flash applications to provide additional backstory, show the revision process and to help make the fictional world deeper for those readers interested in multimedia. That is my goal with Trollwind.com once I get it going.
What I’ve been fighting with since the beginning of the year is: how much of my “spare” time do I devote to each endeavor?
Part of me says to focus on the fiction writing, because even though it is a slow and steady course, it’s what stirs me the most; another part of me says to start writing articles and non-fiction to begin a speedier transition into a writing career; while yet another part of me says to focus on the potentially more lucrative work of Flash development so that I can work less and spend more of my free time writing.
I have been edging toward the first option so far this year, because I think my passion for the writing will help to keep me motivated. The only fear is that without having the solid progress of a completed task (for a novel is a long-term undertaking that I’ve been trying at for a decade), I will become discouraged in the future.
I’ll track my progress and thought process in future posts as I go through the next few months. Until then, I’ll keep on writing.
