Quiet moment:
Summer of 2024, I retired from CA DOJ after 17 years. The bureaucracy was slowly killing me, so much so that I thought I was having the kind of heart trouble that you don't come back from. I had to retire from it or it would retire me.
So I sat, read, cleaned the house real good, landscaped like crazy... and slowly heard the call of my creative side in those quiet moments. I'd walked away from it a long time ago in search of a paycheck. It's the one thing I have always regretted in life, denying the creative I was.
I picked up my pencil, notepad, airbrush, art and crafting supplies and... took a chance. I've now self-published three books, four in less than two weeks. I've done all my own book covers. I have two wips going, and somehow miraculously have taken on clients for doing their cover art.
Am I a bit exhausted? Yes. Is this worth it? YES! I am a creative. This is what I was born to do.