Situations in my life have changed significantly due to the poor economy et al. My work has been cut back to 3 days a week and my salary has been reduced by about $25,000 per year. This may not seem like a lot to some people, but it has a huge impact on my life. This is why I could not make it to the outing this year.
This is not a woe is me thread, this is a thread of hope. I tell you what I did above to set the scene. I am getting a new job on September, but from now until then, I have decided to start writing a book. This is something that I have always wanted to do, but I never had the free time to truly pursue this endeavor. In the month and a half that my job situation changed, I have managed to write about 4 chapters of the book and I look forward to trying to have a completed version done by September! Whether or not it gets published is really a moot point as it is in the writing that I am finding myself.
What am I writing about you may ask? I am writing a story about the life of a depressed person trying to cope with his past and how he is going to move from severe depression into a normal quality life. The main character is based upon my life, but I magnify his problems with alcohol, women, work, the death of a very close person and add a drug problem and suicidal thoughts. I am trying to weave a tapestry of joys and pains, triumphs and despair where the deeper you travel into the book, the more you understand the character and the more you truly root for him to find himself and his place in this world.
Writing this book has been a very cathartic experience and I hope I end up with something that people will want to read. Anyway, I told people in the outing thread that I would give my reasons for having to drop out and here is that thread.
This is not a woe is me thread, this is a thread of hope. I tell you what I did above to set the scene. I am getting a new job on September, but from now until then, I have decided to start writing a book. This is something that I have always wanted to do, but I never had the free time to truly pursue this endeavor. In the month and a half that my job situation changed, I have managed to write about 4 chapters of the book and I look forward to trying to have a completed version done by September! Whether or not it gets published is really a moot point as it is in the writing that I am finding myself.
What am I writing about you may ask? I am writing a story about the life of a depressed person trying to cope with his past and how he is going to move from severe depression into a normal quality life. The main character is based upon my life, but I magnify his problems with alcohol, women, work, the death of a very close person and add a drug problem and suicidal thoughts. I am trying to weave a tapestry of joys and pains, triumphs and despair where the deeper you travel into the book, the more you understand the character and the more you truly root for him to find himself and his place in this world.
Writing this book has been a very cathartic experience and I hope I end up with something that people will want to read. Anyway, I told people in the outing thread that I would give my reasons for having to drop out and here is that thread.
