{"id":283,"date":"2019-12-04T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janetcrum.wordpress.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T13:00:26","slug":"living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/2019\/12\/04\/living-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/insecure-writers-support-group-badge.jpg?resize=150%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Insecure Writers Support Group Badge\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/insecure-writers-support-group-badge.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/insecure-writers-support-group-badge.jpg?resize=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The December question for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com\/p\/iwsg-sign-up.html\">Insecure Writers Support Group Blog Hop<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s play a game. Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine this a lot. Usually when I should be writing. While other middle-aged straight women fantasize about Brad Pitt or The Rock and a bathtub full of Jell-O, I daydream about hitting it big as a writer. Book tours! Interviews! Swanky cocktail parties! Appearing on the Stephen Colbert show! (Psst\u2026 Stephen. I\u2019m currently accepting bookings. I can even be witty and charming if sufficiently caffeinated. Have your people call my people.)<\/p>\n<p>Being the hopeless nerd that I am, I also fantasize about being able to write full time. I even have a schedule worked out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:00\u20139:00: Write<\/li>\n<li>9:00\u201310:00: Gym or walk\/run in the neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>10:00\u201312:00: Write<\/li>\n<li>12:00\u20131:00: Eat a nutritious, delicious lunch and take a walk (Note: in my fantasy world, it\u2019s always sunny and 70F with no wind, so I can take long, meandering walks outside whenever I feel like it. In reality, I live in Flagstaff, where it\u2019s currently 18F with 2 feet of snow on the ground.)<\/li>\n<li>1:00\u20133:00: Corresponding with my agent and editor, social media marketing, blogging, and\u2014my favorite\u2014answering my fan mail. Paging Gilderoy Lockhart\u2026<\/li>\n<li>3:00\u20135:00: Gardening, napping, reading, journaling. Maybe a little laundry thrown in to keep me in touch with how the common people live so my head doesn\u2019t swell too much.<\/li>\n<li>5:00\u20136:00: Lounging in the hot tub until my meal service delivers a hot, delicious yet healthy dinner.<\/li>\n<li>7:00\u201310:00: More reading, journaling, maybe some knitting, a little Twitter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds lovely, right? Right. However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was off work from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday, so theoretically I could have tried out at least some of this ideal schedule. I also take staycations occasionally, which offer a full week in which to road test my dream career. Yet, funnily enough, fantasy and reality never quite align. Let\u2019s take Friday as an example, since I didn\u2019t really have anything I <em>had<\/em> to do that day. Here\u2019s roughly how it went:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:45\u201310:00: Writing (OK, so far, so good, even if I did sleep a bit later than planned)<\/li>\n<li>10:00\u201311:30: Stuff face with Thanksgiving leftovers, then complain about stomachache<\/li>\n<li>11:30 am &#8211; 10:00 pm: Scroll through r\/AmItheAsshole on Reddit, smugly convinced that I would never be the asshole in any of the posted scenarios. Nope. Never. The weather is just fine way up here on my high horse, thanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here\u2019s Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:45\u20139:30: Reading about houseboats on the internet, because my current novel-in-progress will have at least one scene set on a houseboat. Children, this is what we writers call, &#8220;research.&#8221; No, it only sounds like farting around on the internet. If a writer does it, it\u2019s research. And thanks to all that research, I now know that you can buy DIY plans on the internet for a houseboat or something called a shanty boat, which is exactly what it sounds like, and I want one.<\/li>\n<li>9:30\u201310:00: Writing (not a dang word involved houseboats)<\/li>\n<li>10:00\u201310:45: Spend another 45 minutes feeling superior to the other assholes on Reddit.<\/li>\n<li>10:45\u201311:30: Stuff face. Get stomachache.<\/li>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-11-30-07.15.18.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of snow in foreground with blue spruce and San Francisco Peaks in background\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead tauntaun or pile o&#8217; weeds. You make the call.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>11:30\u20135:30: Tunnel through snow to car, excavate car, make several unfunny jokes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/tauntaun\">tauntauns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/at-at-walker\">AT-AT Walkers<\/a>, and trudge through snow with husband and camera in tow. Fork over $80 for someone to plow driveways, then go to town, because we\u2019re almost out of milk, and I\u2019m starting to feel like I\u2019m in a sequel to The Shining even though I\u2019ve only been snowed in for 2 whole days.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/janetalcorn.com\/staging\/1364\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-11-30-12.58.55.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of garden sign and small tree covered in snow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I really want to Photoshop a tauntaun or AT-AT in here. Too bad I don&#8217;t know how to use Photoshop. Sounds like a job for&#8230; Research!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet despite all of this evidence to the contrary, I remain convinced that I could lead a life of genteel literariness if only I had enough money to quit my job and write full-time. I probably have a better shot with Brad or Dwayne and the bathtub full of Jell-O.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see some other great IWSG posts? Check out the list of participants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/wordpress_list.aspx?id=103850&amp;type=basic\">here<\/a>. (<b>Powered by Linky Tools<\/b>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December question for the Insecure Writers Support Group Blog Hop is: &nbsp; Let\u2019s play a game. Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve? I imagine this a lot. Usually when I should be writing. While other middle-aged straight women fantasize about Brad Pitt or The Rock and a bathtub full of Jell-O, I daydream about hitting it big as a writer. Book tours! Interviews! Swanky cocktail parties! Appearing on the Stephen Colbert show! (Psst\u2026 Stephen. I\u2019m currently accepting bookings. I can even be witty and charming if sufficiently caffeinated. Have your people call my people.) Being the hopeless nerd that I am, I also fantasize about being able to write full time. I even have a schedule worked out: 7:00\u20139:00: Write 9:00\u201310:00: Gym or walk\/run in the neighborhood 10:00\u201312:00: Write 12:00\u20131:00: Eat a nutritious, delicious lunch and take a walk (Note: in my fantasy world, it\u2019s always sunny and 70F with no wind, so I can take long, meandering walks outside whenever I feel like it. In reality, I live in Flagstaff, where it\u2019s currently 18F with 2 feet of snow on the ground.) 1:00\u20133:00: Corresponding with my agent and editor, social media marketing, blogging, and\u2014my favorite\u2014answering my fan mail. Paging Gilderoy Lockhart\u2026 3:00\u20135:00: Gardening, napping, reading, journaling. Maybe a little laundry thrown in to keep me in touch with how the common people live so my head doesn\u2019t swell too much. 5:00\u20136:00: Lounging in the hot tub until my meal service delivers a hot, delicious yet healthy dinner. 7:00\u201310:00: More reading, journaling, maybe some knitting, a little Twitter. Sounds lovely, right? Right. However&#8230; I was off work from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday, so theoretically I could have tried out at least some of this ideal schedule. I also take staycations occasionally, which offer a full week in which to road test my dream career. Yet, funnily enough, fantasy and reality never quite align. Let\u2019s take Friday as an example, since I didn\u2019t really have anything I had to do that day. Here\u2019s roughly how it went: 7:45\u201310:00: Writing (OK, so far, so good, even if I did sleep a bit later than planned) 10:00\u201311:30: Stuff face with Thanksgiving leftovers, then complain about stomachache 11:30 am &#8211; 10:00 pm: Scroll through r\/AmItheAsshole on Reddit, smugly convinced that I would never be the asshole in any of the posted scenarios. Nope. Never. The weather is just fine way up here on my high horse, thanks. And here\u2019s Saturday: 7:45\u20139:30: Reading about houseboats on the internet, because my current novel-in-progress will have at least one scene set on a houseboat. Children, this is what we writers call, &#8220;research.&#8221; No, it only sounds like farting around on the internet. If a writer does it, it\u2019s research. And thanks to all that research, I now know that you can buy DIY plans on the internet for a houseboat or something called a shanty boat, which is exactly what it sounds like, and I want one. 9:30\u201310:00: Writing (not a dang word involved houseboats) 10:00\u201310:45: Spend another 45 minutes feeling superior to the other assholes on Reddit. 10:45\u201311:30: Stuff face. Get stomachache. 11:30\u20135:30: Tunnel through snow to car, excavate car, make several unfunny jokes about tauntauns and AT-AT Walkers, and trudge through snow with husband and camera in tow. Fork over $80 for someone to plow driveways, then go to town, because we\u2019re almost out of milk, and I\u2019m starting to feel like I\u2019m in a sequel to The Shining even though I\u2019ve only been snowed in for 2 whole days. Yet despite all of this evidence to the contrary, I remain convinced that I could lead a life of genteel literariness if only I had enough money to quit my job and write full-time. I probably have a better shot with Brad or Dwayne and the bathtub full of Jell-O. Want to see some other great IWSG posts? Check out the list of participants here. 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Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve? I imagine this a lot. Usually when I should be writing. While other middle-aged straight women fantasize about Brad Pitt or The Rock and a bathtub full of Jell-O, I daydream about hitting it big as a writer. Book tours! Interviews! Swanky cocktail parties! Appearing on the Stephen Colbert show! (Psst\u2026 Stephen. I\u2019m currently accepting bookings. I can even be witty and charming if sufficiently caffeinated. Have your people call my people.) Being the hopeless nerd that I am, I also fantasize about being able to write full time. I even have a schedule worked out: 7:00\u20139:00: Write 9:00\u201310:00: Gym or walk\/run in the neighborhood 10:00\u201312:00: Write 12:00\u20131:00: Eat a nutritious, delicious lunch and take a walk (Note: in my fantasy world, it\u2019s always sunny and 70F with no wind, so I can take long, meandering walks outside whenever I feel like it. In reality, I live in Flagstaff, where it\u2019s currently 18F with 2 feet of snow on the ground.) 1:00\u20133:00: Corresponding with my agent and editor, social media marketing, blogging, and\u2014my favorite\u2014answering my fan mail. Paging Gilderoy Lockhart\u2026 3:00\u20135:00: Gardening, napping, reading, journaling. Maybe a little laundry thrown in to keep me in touch with how the common people live so my head doesn\u2019t swell too much. 5:00\u20136:00: Lounging in the hot tub until my meal service delivers a hot, delicious yet healthy dinner. 7:00\u201310:00: More reading, journaling, maybe some knitting, a little Twitter. Sounds lovely, right? Right. However&#8230; I was off work from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday, so theoretically I could have tried out at least some of this ideal schedule. I also take staycations occasionally, which offer a full week in which to road test my dream career. Yet, funnily enough, fantasy and reality never quite align. Let\u2019s take Friday as an example, since I didn\u2019t really have anything I had to do that day. Here\u2019s roughly how it went: 7:45\u201310:00: Writing (OK, so far, so good, even if I did sleep a bit later than planned) 10:00\u201311:30: Stuff face with Thanksgiving leftovers, then complain about stomachache 11:30 am &#8211; 10:00 pm: Scroll through r\/AmItheAsshole on Reddit, smugly convinced that I would never be the asshole in any of the posted scenarios. Nope. Never. The weather is just fine way up here on my high horse, thanks. And here\u2019s Saturday: 7:45\u20139:30: Reading about houseboats on the internet, because my current novel-in-progress will have at least one scene set on a houseboat. Children, this is what we writers call, &#8220;research.&#8221; No, it only sounds like farting around on the internet. If a writer does it, it\u2019s research. And thanks to all that research, I now know that you can buy DIY plans on the internet for a houseboat or something called a shanty boat, which is exactly what it sounds like, and I want one. 9:30\u201310:00: Writing (not a dang word involved houseboats) 10:00\u201310:45: Spend another 45 minutes feeling superior to the other assholes on Reddit. 10:45\u201311:30: Stuff face. Get stomachache. 11:30\u20135:30: Tunnel through snow to car, excavate car, make several unfunny jokes about tauntauns and AT-AT Walkers, and trudge through snow with husband and camera in tow. 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Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve? I imagine this a lot. Usually when I should be writing. While other middle-aged straight women fantasize about Brad Pitt or The Rock and a bathtub full of Jell-O, I daydream about hitting it big as a writer. Book tours! Interviews! Swanky cocktail parties! Appearing on the Stephen Colbert show! (Psst\u2026 Stephen. I\u2019m currently accepting bookings. I can even be witty and charming if sufficiently caffeinated. Have your people call my people.) Being the hopeless nerd that I am, I also fantasize about being able to write full time. I even have a schedule worked out: 7:00\u20139:00: Write 9:00\u201310:00: Gym or walk\/run in the neighborhood 10:00\u201312:00: Write 12:00\u20131:00: Eat a nutritious, delicious lunch and take a walk (Note: in my fantasy world, it\u2019s always sunny and 70F with no wind, so I can take long, meandering walks outside whenever I feel like it. In reality, I live in Flagstaff, where it\u2019s currently 18F with 2 feet of snow on the ground.) 1:00\u20133:00: Corresponding with my agent and editor, social media marketing, blogging, and\u2014my favorite\u2014answering my fan mail. Paging Gilderoy Lockhart\u2026 3:00\u20135:00: Gardening, napping, reading, journaling. Maybe a little laundry thrown in to keep me in touch with how the common people live so my head doesn\u2019t swell too much. 5:00\u20136:00: Lounging in the hot tub until my meal service delivers a hot, delicious yet healthy dinner. 7:00\u201310:00: More reading, journaling, maybe some knitting, a little Twitter. Sounds lovely, right? Right. However&#8230; I was off work from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday, so theoretically I could have tried out at least some of this ideal schedule. I also take staycations occasionally, which offer a full week in which to road test my dream career. Yet, funnily enough, fantasy and reality never quite align. Let\u2019s take Friday as an example, since I didn\u2019t really have anything I had to do that day. Here\u2019s roughly how it went: 7:45\u201310:00: Writing (OK, so far, so good, even if I did sleep a bit later than planned) 10:00\u201311:30: Stuff face with Thanksgiving leftovers, then complain about stomachache 11:30 am &#8211; 10:00 pm: Scroll through r\/AmItheAsshole on Reddit, smugly convinced that I would never be the asshole in any of the posted scenarios. Nope. Never. The weather is just fine way up here on my high horse, thanks. And here\u2019s Saturday: 7:45\u20139:30: Reading about houseboats on the internet, because my current novel-in-progress will have at least one scene set on a houseboat. Children, this is what we writers call, &#8220;research.&#8221; No, it only sounds like farting around on the internet. If a writer does it, it\u2019s research. And thanks to all that research, I now know that you can buy DIY plans on the internet for a houseboat or something called a shanty boat, which is exactly what it sounds like, and I want one. 9:30\u201310:00: Writing (not a dang word involved houseboats) 10:00\u201310:45: Spend another 45 minutes feeling superior to the other assholes on Reddit. 10:45\u201311:30: Stuff face. Get stomachache. 11:30\u20135:30: Tunnel through snow to car, excavate car, make several unfunny jokes about tauntauns and AT-AT Walkers, and trudge through snow with husband and camera in tow. Fork over $80 for someone to plow driveways, then go to town, because we\u2019re almost out of milk, and I\u2019m starting to feel like I\u2019m in a sequel to The Shining even though I\u2019ve only been snowed in for 2 whole days. Yet despite all of this evidence to the contrary, I remain convinced that I could lead a life of genteel literariness if only I had enough money to quit my job and write full-time. I probably have a better shot with Brad or Dwayne and the bathtub full of Jell-O. Want to see some other great IWSG posts? Check out the list of participants here. 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