Writer Career Shifts

From life changes to job changes to genre changes

Ah, how I miss my days working with the ocean…though not enough to give up writing!

@Ashley asked:

Would love to hear your thoughts on writerly career shifts! Whether that be pre-parenting and post-parenting writing challenges, tackling new genres/age categories/themes, or maybe just adopting new habits and drafting styles, so much goes into the creative life and sometimes it feels like a lot to balance.

Okay, Ashley, this is a beast of a question. In a good way! So many elements to cover.

Because this is more than I can address in one post, I’m going to first direct you to a few posts I’ve done in the past that cover some of this directly or indirectly.

• On career transitions:

  • From Scientist to Novelist: My Story

  • Quitting Your Day Job to Write Full Time

• - For smaller, day-to-day life changes:

  • Battling Impatience to Finish

  • Finding Flexibility

  • Balancing Creative Work with the Business and a Toddler

• For BIG life changes:

  • Take the Time to Heal (No book is worth it) (for those big life changes that get…