I walked away from BigLaw to write science fiction
What does life look like for me now?
It's been a bit over a month since I stopped working as a lawyer. So, how is the new career going? In short: well. The longer answer is more complicated.
Below I write about 1) what's going well, 2) what challenges I'm facing, and 3) some general personal updates.
If you're more interested in the struggles of a self-employed writer (haha) skip the first section below (“What’s going well”). And if you want a tl; dr, just skip all the writing and look at the pictures. If you enjoy the post, please comment. If you hate the post, please comment! Just comment.
What's going well:
Planning and outlining the novel: I've really enjoyed using the snowflake method to develop my story. Starting with a one sentence summary of the whole book, I expanded that sentence to a paragraph, and that paragraph to a page, and that page to several pages. Then I made a list of all the scenes I anticipate writing, and have finally begun fleshing out the first few scenes.
Below is a blurred out screen shots of my scene list so far.
