Almost Famous and Running with It

If some of you don't know already, I am in the process of writing and illustrating a children's book.  I'm currently about 10 pages away from finishing all of my illustrations.  This is getting more exciting for me because the next step is painting all 30 pictures.  So I'm still in the early stages.  I can't wait to see the pictures all pretty and colorful.  The backgrounds will be done in watercolors and the characters in markers (to give them a bold cartoony look).  I'm already brainstorming other book ideas.  But I need to work on one book at a time.  I don't want to stop midway through one book and have it never get finished.  I'm hoping that throughout time, after publishing a few books to have extra money coming in.  Not sure how much will come in, but it's a job.  I was going to RSAD studying Illustration, but now I'm realizing, I don't need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to write and illustrate a book.  All you really need is an imagination, drawing and writing skills.  Oh, and an interesting storyline, of course! ;)  I'm hoping to have my book finished and ready to publish in January time.  Haven't set an exact date, but there's no rush. 

I still want to study to become a vet assistant, but my family is growing against it.  They say I should stick to what I do best and write books.  I'll probably make more a year than a vet assistant does anyway in the long run.  Plus my books contain animals, so there is a spark of my passion and love for animals right there.  And I won't have to suffer the work grind every day.  I've never had a real job in my entire life.  When I was a teenager, my jobs were performing and teaching guitar and in my senior year I was my art teacher's assistant during my classtime.  I would really like to know what a real job feels like.  If I were a vet assistant, I'd have to wake up early and work all day and come home late.  And that goes for any job, of course.  I just want to feel "normal".  My damn schizophrenia gets in the way.  I would love to have a job like everybody else.  I guess I shouldn't complain.  So I'm gonna take what I've got and run with it.

Rant time is over.  Time for bed.