May 2023 – Diving into Writing

Episode 111 – Don’t give up your day job

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about the many reasons NOT to quit your day job as a writer.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

Why Mariëlle and Lucinda are both keen on keeping their day jobs
Why having and keeping a day job can be beneficial to your writing
Plenty of known authors had day jobs while already being published, and some continued to keep some sort of day job even after becoming successful
Many authors have multiple income streams based on their writing, meaning they don’t ‘just write’ the whole day either

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda each have a little vent about how they’ve been doing since the last time they recorded.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

Lucinda has started playing around with her writing again, which has led to new ideas and bursts of inspiration
Mariëlle’s been feeling overwhelmed for different reasons and she’s still in the ‘no one’s waiting for this’ phase; but, she IS writing daily and she’s – for the first time in her life – set on writing 50k words by the end of Camp NaNoWriMo April
Both Lucinda and Mariëlle set the intention to keep on having as much fun as they can with whatever they’re working on right now

In this week’s episode, Mariëlle and Lucinda talk about overwhelm and how they (try to) deal with it.

Here are some of the topics that came up:

The differences between dealing with overwhelm at the day job and in your writing life
The importance of to-do lists and prioritising the items on said list
That Lucinda and Mariëlle relate to time differently, and how they both end up overwhelmed by it
Mariëlle having found her limit when it comes to the length of her to-do lists
How they both handle wanting to do to much at the same time
Why it’s necessary to remind yourself why you’ve put an item on your to-do list to begin with