Do You Wonder As a Writer?

I wonder as a writer why I write sometimes. This is such a hard road to follow. You walk it everyday wondering when will you get your break? I do not want riches and to be the best selling author. I just want to be an author and to get paid doing it. I knew the repercussion going into this line of work. I know you do not make much, but you see I do not need much to live on. Actually I am not that even sure about that. What is truly my goal is all this? What is my goal if I do not want to be the next Bestseller? I want to write and live comfortably doing it. I want writing to truly be my job. This is hard thing to achieve though. So do I have any other goal? I guess it would be then to show the ones that said I could not, that I did.

Things Moving Yet I am Standing Still

Things are moving yet they are not. I still have not heard back from the publisher My Authors about my book. I submitted it around February 9Th or 11Th of this year and still nothing. I even wrote them, and still nothing. I am told by some I should of heard back by now but hey I have not even heard back from the other agents and publishers I submitted to not even a sweet hello rejection. I am a bit worried having not heard anything , but I do know it can take months to hear back from a publisher....so how long is too long? On a brighter note my writing has picked up and I have been keeping pretty busy with writing assignments and meeting deadlines. I am also actually getting paid so this is quite a sweet thing. I am for the first time seeing the glass half full instead of half empty. True the pay is not much but at least it is something. The more I do the more I get paid so the amount adds up quickly. I Know it's not paying the bills totally, but it is better than no income at all. I am wondering if I should still wait or should I just grab the reigns and yeee ha!