I found a list of potential blog topics while I was looking for ideas today. This seemed like an interesting one, so here goes.
First off, I think the title of this blog should be “When I’m a famous writer I will”, instead of the bland, hope-for-the-best ‘If I were…’. I learned this at a presentation by a man named Ed Gerety, who is an amazing, amazing speaker.
So, WHEN I’m a famous author I WILL…
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1. Have a crew come in and completely tear up the “landscaping” and start from scratch.
2. Have a second crew come in and completely tear off the outside of the house and replace it with clapboards and shingles.
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3. Have yet another crew come in and tear out the inside of the house and re-do pretty much everything.
4. Buy a caboose and 2 short lengths of track, have it set up in the yard, and have a crew come in (probably the same ones from #2) and restore it to its original condition, but outfitted to serve as my new office. (Right now, my “office” is a spot at the kitchen counter, right above the litter box.)
5. Buy all new vehicles for the 6 of us (except Kristen, who ‘loves’ her car. For her, I’ll just put the money aside for later). Nothing too fancy; I’m not talking Beamers and Mercedes, just good quality, good mileage cars.
6. Make sure to take a nice vacation or two every year.
7. Set up some sort of foundation to contribute to several favorite charities.
8. Get a job somewhere teaching creative writing.
9. I almost forgot; pay off all the kids’ school loans.
I wonder what it says about me that all I focused on was the money???? This actually sounds kind of like my “When I win the lottery…” list. It’s funny, I just estimated the total of this whole list and it comes to somewhere between 400-500 thousand. That’s an awful lot of money, but to put it in perspective, it’s roughly the equivalent of winning a million bucks.
I just read through the list again. I guess I’d better get back to work on my latest book.
