Comments on: Sanctuary

By: sizemore

sizemore — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:10:08 +0000

Dave – good luck with the new job. Sounds like a smart move.

Rupert – I should hire you to edit my posts.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:29:39 +0000

1. get there 2. fuck it up and 3. move on.
marvellous

By: buddhamagnet

buddhamagnet — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:45 +0000

I have just handed my notice in and am starting a job – a contract – in London. I’m a writer and programmer, and the contract pays twice as much as my old job, puts me square in the heart of London within easy reach of all the media freaks I need to interface with. It will push me out of my comfort zone and give me a kick up the arse. I aim to make my true start in paid word production there.

I agree with Mike’s idea of the happy malcontent. I am deliriously happy – I will have money, will be absorbing the metropolis – but I’m a million miles from content. But the very fact that through sheer audacity and bloody-mindedness I have managed to get things moving makes me buzz, and that’s my sanctuary. The knowledge that I can live off my wits and will always find edgy and interesting people to jam with.

By: sizemore

sizemore — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:45:47 +0000

Jeff – Glad it rang a bell or two. I’ve had some seriously shitty jobs. Some people get stuck on what should only ever be stepping stones and then look shocked every time they get trod on. I moved north for a few months and stayed there three years. Took someone else kicking my life in the balls to wake me up that time – ever since I’ve done a good job of checking my own pulse every 6 months to make sure I’m where I want to be.

Freelancing can be a slow start – took me a year. Good luck with it. You’re younger than I am if that’s any consolation

Bob on indeed.

Jemimah – makes perfect sense. Otherwise we’re just Edward G. Robinson at the end of Soylent Green. I’d rather be Heston trying to make people give a fuck. They never do, but that’s ok.

As for my current workload I just keep adding to it until it starts to fracture. Then I have something to fix. It’s all good.

By: JK

JK — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:06:41 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with this. I have never been able to write anything worth a pinch of salt when I get distracted by things being ok. (That doesn’t make a heap of sense does it?)

There always has to be an itch to scratch, otherwise there’s nothing to talk about. There – that seems a bit better.

I always had the feeling that Delilah didn’t really cut off Samson’s hair, she just made him really comfy and he started to forget. I’m guessing with the work you are churning out lately that things are stimulating and that you’re not putting thumb tacks on your chair to get that right reaction!

By: Jeffman

Jeffman — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:21:21 +0000

Inspirational stuff! Finding myself suddenly without employment (a shitty job I hated every single moment of, right down to the last few dying seconds) has hopefully served the much needed kick in the balls I need to finally put me, doubled up and certainly staggering, on the path to makiing a proper hash of the freelance writing game.

I may have left it late in life, being 34, and I may not share the background of a lot of the media trendies currently entrenched in and turning a shilling from this business but your words here have only helped to reaffirm the belief that things are possible if you have the passion. Even for someone like me.

Bob on!