Comments on: To Retire or Not To Retire

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:50:39 +0000

Thanks, E.C.

I think what I have in not “will” power, but “won’t” power. Or, maybe I should say my brain has it. It just won’t quit.

Judy

By: EC Sheedy

EC Sheedy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:53:19 +0000

Retire from writing? Is it possible when the muse–stubborn child–refuses to age along with you?

That you actually retired for “seven hours, thirteen minutes and nine seconds” is a testament to your will power, Judy!

Write on!

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:53:04 +0000

Cindy, if your family didn’t fear for your sanity, you’d probably be a dentist or something innocuous like that. It’s being on the verge of nutso that keeps us writing. I think. If my eyes give out, I plan to hire someone to make sure my fingers are on the right keys. Long live touch-typing!

Judy

By: Cindy Procter-King

Cindy Procter-King — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:13:20 +0000

LOL, Judy, great post.

I have no idea when I’ll stop writing, seeing as it’s taking me an extraordinarily long time to move from selling to micro- and small presses/publishers to one of the big dogs. Once I’m there, I’ll feel duty bound to stay awhile. Besides, I fear for my sanity if I were to retire. My family fears for my sanity NOW.

Anyway, 100 is the new 90, and considering my grandfather lived to over 106 and only became decrepit at 105, I have a long way to go before I need to consider such things. My eyes will probably give out and THEN I’ll retire.

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:42:55 +0000

You’re right, Yvonne. Life without imagination would be… death and I really prefer to stay alive and keep my mind the same way. Sometimes, though, I wish I could flick it off when I want to get to sleep. Just temporarily, of course.

Judy

By: Yvonne Lindsay

Yvonne Lindsay — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:42:14 +0000

It took me most of my adult life (to date) to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I figure, since I sold my first book three and a half years ago, that if I put as many years in my writing as I did on the coal face of other jobs then retirement is still going to be absolute ages away. Mind you, I don’t think writers can ever really stop writing. It’d be like flicking off your imagination switch permanently and what would life be worth without imagination?

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:37:57 +0000

Good for you, Joan, and congratulations to your grandpa! I come from a long line of long-lived women (the men not all faring as well), so I imagine my writing days are pretty much unlimited as far into the future as I can see. I’ve always said I want to die with my face on my keyboard having just wrapped up the sexiest closing scene ever written.

By: Joan Reeves

Joan Reeves — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:18:42 +0000

I’ll stop writing when they pry the keyboard from my dead fingers. My grandfather lived to 100. In his 70′s, he bought a typewriter and started pecking away and kept at it until his late 90′s. He was a frequent correspondent of lots of people and enjoyed writing long letters on his typewriter which now resides in my study. The longevity gene is in my family so I figure I have plenty of time and plenty of words left.

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:30:55 +0000

Thanks, Phoebe, glad you enjoyed the blog and hope you keep coming back for more, every day, something new. It keeps us on our toes, this writing thing, so even if your hands grow ancient, gnarled and arthritic, maybe you’ll still be able to hold that pencil in your toes.

Best,

Judy

By: Judy Griffith Gill

Judy Griffith Gill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:27:54 +0000

You’re right, Estella. That eagle may well have been squirting out something from its nether end, but to me it looked like “once upon a time”, and as long as that happens, I guess I keep on writing.

Thanks for visiting the Ninc blog site.

Judy