Thursday Thirteen #6

1. I get to make up stuff all day long.
2. Lying on the couch with my eyes shut is, arguably, “working.”
3. If the people I am working with (read: characters) piss me off, I can kill them.
4. At parties, when people ask you what you do, it’s so much fun to say, “I’m a novelist.”
5. Did I mention the part about lying for a living? (Well, maybe that’s not so uncommon. I live, after all, in D.C.)
6. I get to make people laugh, and otherwise distract them from bad stuff.
7. The pajamas, the bathrobes, the bunny slippers…
8. No commute.
9. I set my own schedule.
10. It’s never boring. Unless I’m doing it wrong. (Or it’s galleys.)
11. Buying books is a business expense.
12. Reading books is “industry research.”
13. According to the Lloyd Dobbler theory of careers, you can do one of the following: buy, sell, process or repair. I always liked process the most. I get such a kick out of the fact that I’m a creator. There is nothing, and then there is a manuscript. I hold it in my hands. I like seeing what a big stack it makes all printed out.

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