Describing My (lack of) Profession
A Writer’s Journey
I decided to tell people the truth: “I’m going to stay home and work on a book I’m trying to get published.” It sounds easy, but every time people ask me what I’m going to do when I get to Hattiesburg, I always chicken out. My gut reaction is always the same: I say, “I don’t know.” Seriously, brain?!? Why?
A friend of mine is in a similar situation. When people ask her husband where she works, he tells them she doesn’t have a job.
“So she’s a student?” they ask.
“No, she’s not going to school,” he answers.
“She’s a stay at home mom, then?”
“No, we don’t have kids.”
“Is she… disabled?”
“No, she’s fine.”
(Long pause.) “What does your wife do?”
At this point, he looks them in the eye and says, “Whatever she damn well pleases.”
That’s what I should start telling people. It sounds better than “I don’t know.”
I finally bucked up and told someone what I was doing, but only because my husband was staring me down trying to make me stop being modest. I told the man how I hesitate to say I’m a wannabe novelist because I’m afraid people will look at me differently.
“There is nothing wrong with that,” he said, adamantly shaking his head. “You don’t have to answer to anyone but yourself and God.”
I like that.
On A Writers Journey, aspiring novelist Teralyn Rose Pilgrim talks about the excitements and disappointments that go along with her budding career. Currently agents are looking at her historical fiction about Rome’s Vestal Virgins.
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‘I’ appears 50 times here. wow.