I have been offered a sort of job... well, not definitively, but I'm wondering whether it will work with the writing.
The guy who has opened the new real ale/cider bar (the Chapel) in the old Albion Bookshop has asked me to consider working for him in the mornings, opening up the shop and dealing with the books... I don't know how much he'll pay - but I'm going to insist on getting a cleaner. I know "we can't afford it" but I think it's the answer. We can continue with a student, and the occasional B&B stuff, but this job should ensure we can pay our debts off a bit faster, and means we should be able to pay next month's mortgage.
The only downside - in fact the first thing I thought of - is "How will I be able to write if this happens?" The answer is "early in the morning" I will have to set my laptop up in the spare room and get up early and write then... I will just have to be more disciplined. Somehow things will work out. I have been waiting for the "call" for something to happen as a result of this current apparently well-starred period, and it has come for me too!
Ned is starting work with Julian tonight (that's the owner of the Chapel). Maybe I can persuade JN to allow Ned to do the bookshop stuff on Saturdays?
I wonder if he will have wifi at the shop - enable me to use it to check prices on Amazon etc.
All this is making me feel a lot less stuck - I will have a little money, I can spend occasionally. It won't be an enormous amount, but perhaps I can begin to accrue a little at last, rather than permanently pour out money...I am puzzled but happy. I have to keep writing though. Will it be as easy on dark winter mornings?
The guy who has opened the new real ale/cider bar (the Chapel) in the old Albion Bookshop has asked me to consider working for him in the mornings, opening up the shop and dealing with the books... I don't know how much he'll pay - but I'm going to insist on getting a cleaner. I know "we can't afford it" but I think it's the answer. We can continue with a student, and the occasional B&B stuff, but this job should ensure we can pay our debts off a bit faster, and means we should be able to pay next month's mortgage.
The only downside - in fact the first thing I thought of - is "How will I be able to write if this happens?" The answer is "early in the morning" I will have to set my laptop up in the spare room and get up early and write then... I will just have to be more disciplined. Somehow things will work out. I have been waiting for the "call" for something to happen as a result of this current apparently well-starred period, and it has come for me too!
Ned is starting work with Julian tonight (that's the owner of the Chapel). Maybe I can persuade JN to allow Ned to do the bookshop stuff on Saturdays?
I wonder if he will have wifi at the shop - enable me to use it to check prices on Amazon etc.
All this is making me feel a lot less stuck - I will have a little money, I can spend occasionally. It won't be an enormous amount, but perhaps I can begin to accrue a little at last, rather than permanently pour out money...I am puzzled but happy. I have to keep writing though. Will it be as easy on dark winter mornings?
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