You cannot imagine how happy I am to be home right
now. Today felt like a long day. Sometimes, I think to myself if I truly want
to spend the rest of my life being a teacher. Everyone has that moment when
they don’t feel happy working at their job. Maybe it’s the pay, coworkers or no
work/life balance. Whatever the reason may be, most still remain at their job
for security purposes. We all want to be doing something that we’re truly
passionate about. For me, that’s writing.
I don’t feel teaching is my true calling. However, I
need a steady income especially since I’m living on my own, have a car note and
a cell phone bill to pay monthly. Without a job, I would be SOL. It's not that I don't enjoy being a teacher, because I do. I just don't think it's my true calling career wise. It can be exhausting teaching preschoolers.
Teaching can have its awards. Basically as a teacher
you’re an advocate to children. I just really want my main source of income to
come from writing. In order for that to happen, I need to put effort into my
writing and continue to push forward with the positivity that an agent or
publisher will accept anyone of my novels. That would be like having my foot in
the door.
Currently, I’m in the process…or rather slowly
starting to revamp Nightmare Chronicles. I really think it might do better as a
full length novel than a short story. For a full length novel, word length for
a YA would have to be at least more than 50,000 word count, but I’m sure the average
word count many see in those novels are about 60,000. Nightmare Chronicles is
about 30,000+ or so in total. So, I would really have to add in a LOT of
details and extra chapters, lol. I already have some ideas in mind to make
it better. I’ll probably expand a lot of things, mostly on the relationship
between Nightmare and Andy, and develop a few characters better (the antagonist
and The Mechanic.) I’m going to shoot for at least 55,000+ word count. Good
thing I have already 30,000+ completed for it. I'm half way there and my goal will be reached soon!
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