I found your post very encouraging. I admire your strength and courage to persevere. I recently started up a WP blog on anxiety attacks. I suffer from anxiety and thought it would be good therapy to share my experiences with the world.

Ellie
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Just think, Grandma. When the money starts rolling in, you never have to worry about decreasing sunlight again. You can always travel to bright sunny areas where the days are long and the weather is good.

It is so disappointing when one good source of income, no matter if it is active or passive, dies out or disappears. You watch and wonder what the heck happened, but really the thing to do is stop watching and find another “tool” to use to get that income back and then some.

Also, sometimes a new resource becomes an amazing resource, bringing in far more than expected or even wished for. That is fun.

A writer is often on a lonely path, sitting alone in a room listening to music while awaiting inspiration or a hint of a new thought with which to begin a new piece of written excellence. The writing life does not have to be passive, always waiting for an opportunity to appear – from a place that others have created. The writer can be active – create their own opportunity, any time they want to work at doing that.

This is an exciting time, and at the same time a little sad. Sad to see things like print convert to electronic publishing…but exciting because the scope of what can be done with electronic publishing is greater. Plus, you can do it yourself, not always needing some other editor or publisher to give you a green light to go ahead and make money.

Oh darn, must the the end of the year blues again…or S.A.D. time of decreasing sunlight. Maybe I will go buy myself a sunlamp for a gift this year! And have it on while composing brilliant works like this!