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It’s Not the Money That Makes Your Writing a Legitimate Passion
You are a writer, with or without making a living off it
“What are you doing?” My mum asks me.
“Writing.”
I tell her the same answer I have been telling her the past eight months, whenever she found me typing on my laptop — day in and day out.
The sight of me writing completely immersed in some story, article or essay is getting usual. I hear my kids discussing it among them, mum is working, let’s not disturb her.
My mum has earned the right to ask me what I am doing by being my one true helper with my three daughters. She is the one taking care of them when I am away on a business trip, picking them up from school once or twice a week, taking them to a piano or a dance class. She is deeply involved in our family dynamics — and without her, I wouldn’t be able to manage everything I have to manage on a daily basis. She is the one who never forgets about the school plays, who reminds me to go to the parent-teacher discussions and she helps with laundry and grocery shopping too.
In exchange, she is allowed to ask me what is it that makes me so busy.
Writing has become one of my main occupations since I started to write, taking it more and more…
