6 Years Writing
.... and I forgot my own writing anniversary. But that's ok. I don't think that's a bad thing. I've stopped thinking about writing milestones, to be honest. Writing is now something that I do as part of my day, no questions asked. This is interesting because it's the same for music, I've found. When first learning a musical instrument we are very goal-oriented. I'm on "the next" piece in a book. But if you tough it out long enough you lose track of how many pieces you know and it just becomes a thing. Over the past two writing years I've noticed that I've become less profit-driven with writing. Getting more sales was highly motivating to me when I first started on this publishing journey. But I noticed that my mindset has switched from needing to get sales to "Oh, look at that I got a sale. How nice." My mindset right now I think would have frustrated freshly-published me a few years ago. But something I've