OMG!!! Quick!...Go take a look at my 12/24/07 entry regarding abundant income, then come back.

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Oh goodness, I really haven't done much writing in the past year. I put the dream of being a best-selling romance author on the back burner. Sketched out the outlines to a couple new novels, but just mentally couldn't commit to writing them up for whatever lame reason. Yes, last year's sickness and death of my mom-in-law was a good excuse, but I admit...an excuse.

I decided to focus on my engineering career after receiving a few rejection letters. Damn it! I've been to the past two years of RWA conferences - you'd think the message would have sunk in! I know better. I know it requires me to not give up on the dream of becoming a writer. It takes writing each day and eventually I'll have a collection of works under my belt. This way, eventually, when I "make it" I'll have a whole juicy portfolio of work to offer a publisher. I've heard the best in the industry say this very thing to my face: Nora Roberts, Christina Dodd, Shelley Bradley, Debra Dixon, Julie Garwood...the best! I know better!

So right now I'm banging my head with a frying pan. Why? I just received notice I'm being laid off! Times are grim in the small tool industry....VERY grim. Thus, it looks like I've goofed up big time on my 12/24/07 blog entry. I wished for my friends, I wished for my family, but I forgot to include myself in that wish of "abundant income"!

Ahhh, but did I? Life has showed me so many numerous times things seem to happen for a reason. A career as a Quality and Test Manager takes SERIOUS brain power. Too much actually. All the technical reporting and focus has managed to suck the energy from me in my spare time and prevented me from pursuing my real passion....writing romances!

So maybe, just maybe...this lay off couldn't be coming at a better time and the best is yet to come this year? I can't wait to find out!