Full time.

So, I just signed up for a 20-hour-a-week unpaid internship as a ghostwriter. Add that onto the hours I'm working for Sheila Kelley and the increased hours Yahoo! TV just gave me and for the first time since before my marriage I find myself with a 40-hour work week.

Now, I never did very well with 40-hour work weeks before, but this is different, because I'm not spending 40 hours a week processing mortgage applications or shelving books or answering phones to finance my writing habit. I'm spending 40 hours a week writing, and 20 of it paid well enough to make up for the other 20. In fact, even with only half my hours paid, I'm still making more than I ever made at any of my other 40-hour-a-week gigs. That's not saying a lot, since I've only ever freelanced part-time, and my only full-time gigs were entry-level receptionist crap, but still, how cool is it that I can do what I love 40 hours a week and do as well or better financially than I've ever done?

In addition, my newly demanding schedule will serve as a sort of halfway point to what I want to put myself through later. It will be an excellent way for me to find out if I have what it takes to put in the 60, 70, 80!!! hours that a television writer puts in every week. Stay tuned for reports of my smashing success or dismal failure.