Retirement

I’m a long way off from retirement, but I couldn’t think of anything else to title this post. The subject came to mind as I was thinking how I’ve published a couple of books in the past year and wondering if that’s something I’ll keep doing or if at some point I close up shop. I’ve always kind of assumed I’d never stop writing. Heck, I’ve been doing it in some form or other for most of my life. And the thought of having all day, every day, to write…well, that’s just a nice thought. Maybe it’s actually a two-part question. Will I ever retire from writing? Doubtful. I don’t see how I could. Will I ever retire from publishing? That could very well happen, at least as to how I publish books in their current form. When I get to that magic retirement age and can afford to leave behind the corporate life and steady paycheck, I’ll live on a fixed budget. I mean, that’s kind of the case now, but you know what I mean. As I’ve mentioned before, publishing and marketing a book is expensive. Maybe there will come a time when I can’t afford that kind of financial outlay, in which case how I publish a book changes drastically. Fortunately, we live in a world where if I want to, I can do all the formatting and design myself and upload a finished product to Amazon. But even that still requires an investment to promote a book or else it dies in the Kindle store, lonely and unread. Again, this is all way in the future and maybe by then publishing a book will look way different than it does today. Food for thought.