If I Don’t Write, I’ll Lose My Car…and I Really Like My Car
How to use economic pressure to help you overcome writing anxiety.
Last year, I quit my career in corporate finance to pursue my dream of writing full-time. I’d had a few articles published and was starting to get some traction so with a nice little nest-egg behind me, I decided to make the leap. You can already see how this story’s going to go, right?
You guessed it. Everything went wrong. And I didn’t write.
This year, my son was born and along with his birth came a whole new level of economic pressure I’d never before experienced. If I didn’t make at least $2000 a month, we would lose our car, my baby would be going to daycare and I’d have to get a job.
I have never hustled so hard in my life…and it’s working.
This coming month, I’ll have two articles published in a national parenting magazine, file a story for the Saturday papers and two more for an emerging family-orientated website. It’s the kind of success that would have brought me to tears last year. As a working writer, I aspire to make the minimum wage.
So what changed for me?
I had the perfect ingredients for success or a complete breakdown — high stakes and a purpose greater than…
