Violet Voices

19
September
2006

I must be crazy

I’ve started a new business this past summer. I’m now the proud proprietor of the Fiction Fix-It Shop, a freelance fiction editing service. If you are writing fiction, or have friends who do, please check it out!

It’s going well so far, and I’m excited about it. But it’s yet another thing on top of my own writing, homeschooling, and church ministry. I need to do it because we need the income. In fact, every thing I’m currently involved in are things I feel I am supposed to be doing.

And sometimes it is overwhelming. Like right now. I leave tomorrow for a writers conference. I’m supposed to be giving a “Late Night Chat” about writing and being a parent. How to make it work. I’m not so sure I have a lot of advice to give on that subject. Sometimes, I’m not sure how to make it work for me, much less anyone else.

This morning, I lay in bed for awhile, just praying that God would help me order and prioritize my day. There’s so much to be done, and I know there is little time. I just have to trust Him that what must be done will get done, somehow. And that it’s okay to leave the rest of it until another time.

So when people ask me “how do you do it all?” I usually say “I don’t!” But it’s true that I’m doing a lot. And somehow it’s working. It’s God, not me, that’s for sure.
And honestly, it’s really exciting to be able to say I’m self-employed. I’ve been self-employed with my writing for several years. But adding the editing is a different kind of self-employment, it seems. I’m not sure how to explain it, but offering a service to other writers feels different than working on my own art. I like both my careers, but the Fiction Fix-It Shop makes me feel like a businesswoman in a way the writing doesn’t.

I just hope and pray I’m not in over my head!