Sylvia's Soliloquies

Changes are Coming - 4/21/22

Hello all, seems like it's been awhile. I've been posting usually once a week for Delilah Cross and the Bone Chapel, but I had wanted to start this year off with more activity than that. In fact, the sheer lack of time and energy I've been experiencing has had a significant impact on my life. So much so, that I decided to make a rather drastic change.

Writing has been something that I've squeezed in whenever I have time to breathe and whenever there's enough mental space in my head to be creative. Having both of those things at the same time has been a struggle. I need to write, I need to express myself in creative ways, without that I get depressed. However, it's been hard to accept that because at the end of the day I'm a free spirit trapped in a workaholics body.

I was raised to believe that to succeed you needed to be in a two-income household. However, that was from a time period where we as a society didn't truly appreciate the value of mental health. Sure, my family is comfortable financially, but the household is stressed by the lack of time to take care of household chores and necessities, so whenever we do have time, we do that instead of being together. I'm incredibly blessed in that I am in a relationship where my husband makes enough to keep us financially stable. Having the extra money I bring in is not worth the stress the entire family feels because of it though. It makes more sense to have one person earning the steady income while the other attends to matters around the house and family, while pursuing the creative outlets that give me a sense of fulfillment.

So with all that said...

Last January I submitted a letter of resignation to my day job. I specifically gave them months of advance notice so that they had time to find a proper replacement. Due to other significant staffing changes, they did ask if we could delay the announcement of my departure. I have a very public role in a tight knit community and they worried what impact the news might have on top of other big announcements. Yesterday, however, we finally announced that I was leaving and settled on my last day being June 3rd.

Long story short, starting in June I will be a full time writer again.

So changes are coming. Back when I used to write full time, I was posting pretty much every day. I'm not saying I'll get right back to that frequency, but I will be far more active and hopefully by the fall, I will be back into a groove with multiple postings a week.

So thank you all for your patience as I struggled to find a balance in my work life. I'm so excited to be returning to writing more fully and I can't wait to delve into all the projects that have been filling my head.

So I'm 44 days away to freedom, let the countdown begin!