Dateline 6-3-2017

It is yet another weekend and I just realized that I really have to stop giving myself so much grief for taking it easy from time to time. Just because I live an untraditional life, where I work for others as little as I have to, purely to be able to afford to survive while doing what I want with my free time, doesn't mean that I'm slacking off just because I'm not earning a paycheck.

I'm also aware that my challenges are fun and don't seem like work at all but then you don't know all the behind the scenes efforts to keep this going while also earning an income on the side. Though this blog itself may not be paying off right now, keep in mind, I still seem myself four and a half years into a ten-year training process.

I can see a huge leap in the quality of content from the days that I started to what I am putting out now. I figure in five and a half years of sticking to this daily practice by the time I'm done, I will not only be better at blogging but my overall abilities should improve to where I can get back to writing novels and other fictional work.

I understand why an outsider may find this entire process to be pointless especially as I get older and older but this is all that I've got and if I didn't have this dream to chance, I'd have no reason to live because I have gone the cubical walled existence and found it to be like living in a coffin with a cork board and a computer.

Actually, no one ever calls me out on this stuff, there's just an inner guilt that pops up from time to time because we live in a country that's supposed to be free yet discourage to stray from tradition in an attempt to feel fulfilled over the drive to create bills to have to pay.

So, I'm going easy today...

Talk to you tomorrow,

The Wicker Breaker