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Let’s start with the good stuff…my word count is 25,072. Woo hoo! Broke 25K almost 1/3 of the way complete. I figure the book should be at 80K for the genre it’s in and that word count will work if it is consider YA or Adult. Want to know how I came up with that word count? I read it on Colleen Lindsay’s blog post here .
Now everyone will have an opinion about word counts. There isn’t some standardized rule book everyone in the publishing industry follows. This is where accounting was an easier career choice. 1 + 1= 2 unless you were accruing over several months then there were different guidelines. (little accounting joke there). I am following these guidelines because they sound reasonable and I can tell the whole story within that word length and more importantly, I plan on submitting to Colleen so I will follow her guidelines.
On to other topics, Michy provided a writing prompt on the AWF here asking about good/bad customer service experiences. I am one of those people who will write letters thanking companies for good service and will ask to speak to a supervisor at a call center to praise on employee. I have worked customer service jobs and know how much it meant to me.
My best customer service is with my Farmers Insurance Agent Wayne Seyfert. He has covered my houses for over a decade. I have left Farmers only when the price is at such a discount at some other company that it is worth my while. Even when I wasn’t Wayne’s client anymore, he is always willing to take my call and answer any questions I have. His customer service skills are amazing and I know I can always count on him to answer insurance questions, recommend local businesses like mechanics and even offer me career advice when I was in the insurance business. If you live in AZ I highly recommend him. Here is his number…602.938.9554
So that is my customer service story. How about you? Have any great stories you can share?
My job kind of sucks. I am an accountant by day. My job is bad enough, but the company had another round of lay offs. Nope, I wasn’t included but another person in the department was laid off. I am to take over her job duties, plus keep most of mine. Hey, I should be happy I have a job right? Wrong.
I am not happy to have the job. I was okay with the old job and figured I could stick with it until this whole writing thing took off for me. But the new job duties, forget it. I hate doing AP (paying the bills) especially when the bills aren’t getting paid and vendors are calling constantly to yell.
I have a dream of quitting my job and writing full time. I even had a plan on doing it once my son goes into school next year because I won’t have to pay $185 a week in daycare.
I have worked since the age of 12. Work to me has always meant doing what you have to do to pay bills. Not what you want to do. I have a hard time thinking that I can do what I want to do and get paid for it.
I agonized over this choice and as I was pulling out of the parking lot I said, “If I could only have a sign, I don’t need a burning bush, just a sign.” The first car I got behind was this SUV and their license plate read “MMbyeby” I’m bye bye. I am outta here. I call that a sign!
So after talking to my husband and several nudges from Michelle (Michy) from the Accentuate Services Forum, a new nudge from Cindy also from Accentuate and a whole lot of what ifs and freaking out to my good friend Susan I have decided to quit my job.
Wow, It is amazing just typing that one sentence. Let me do it again, I am quiting my job!
I am going to write full time. I am going to be a freelance writer. I am trying not to freak out.
Michy pointed out to me that I felt like I was not “enough…. not enough for everyone. Not just not good enough, but rather, not enough.” She went on to tell me that I have always been more than enough. She’s kind of wonderful like that.
She’s right. Even as I sat there at my desk today really considering quitting and almost going into a panic attack, I could hear that voice telling me that I am not good enough. The more I started leaning towards quitting the louder the voice got. It found some friends that chimed in that I won’t make it. I won’t make enough to pay the bills. I will bankrupt my family and will have to find some other accountant job that will pay me a lot less.
Screw ‘em. I am not listening to those voices anymore! I am listening to Michy, Cindy and Susan. They each have offered me so much encouragement and praise. I am listening guys. Thank you!
Susan, I am doing this for you too. If I do it When I do this and succeed, it will give you what you need to do it too. I have no doubts you will be successful!
I am going in Monday and announcing my freedom. Monday is Columbus Day, the day that Columbus supposedly discovered America. America the land of the free. He changed the world. I will be changing my world.
This is my Declaration of Independence!
