Writing
I spend a lot of time writing about writing. I do it for KidMagWriters and for the Institute. I do it in letters to my students. And (despite it sounding vain and obnoxious) I think I do it pretty well.

But still.

Sometimes I long to do more writing than writing about writing. But writing about writing pays the bills (well, I don't make any money from KMW but that one is important to me.) But an opportunity to do some work-for-hire writing has peeked above my horizon and I am delighted. It'll feel good to get into a lengthy project again. It's not that I don't have plenty of half-finished books I could work on...but since all my half-finished books have no promise of paycheck, they get pushed to the back of the things-to-do pile. But work-for-hire means writing and paycheck.

Which makes me veddy veddy happy.