Throughout my writing career I've always maintained a day job. I've had periods of time where I was between jobs for a month or two at most, but now, for the first time in my life, I can finally consider myself a full-time writer.

January 21st was my last day of full-time employment, and on January 24th I started my writing career over again. I've published regularly over the last several years despite maintaining a day job, but now that writing is my primary focus, it truly feels like a new beginning.

As I planned my wedding and continued to work, my writing career became less and less of a priority, and more something I'd done in the past. I can remember what it was like when I first began pursuing writing as a career and how consumed by it I was. I'm looking forward to rediscovering that energy.

For the first time since my career began, I'm out of contract, and that's not unlike being an unpublished writer. A writer out of contract and an unpublished writer are both driven by the same uncertainty of ever having a future publication.

Hunger is a great motivator. We'll see how it goes.