Our question for today: If you won the lottery (mega-millions) would you keep on writing? Would it change what you write?
Patricia Rice:
Winning mega-millions is a lovely daydream we can all enjoy, even if we don’t buy tickets, which I don’t. A million dollars these days, even after taxes, isn’t enough to buy a decent house where we live. But mega-millions: the mind goes wild. I could start entire industries in poverty-stricken areas. But I’m a writer and a first-class introvert and realistically, I know I wouldn’t be that brave, smart, or knowledgeable. So I’d probably divide up the money among family, give a huge chunk to charities that might build those industries, save a bit for emergencies and travel… and then finish writing those books I’ve started about four lucky people who share a mega-million lottery.
But as a writer of historical romance, the only lucky characters I've written are the ones in my Rebellious Sons series, with their mysterious two-thousand pound inheritances. In the Regency, that was a nice sum for a young couple to start a life on!
Jo Beverley:
When I was younger I would definitely have bought things and services to give me more time to write, but all these decades later, my reaction would be a bit different. I would keep writing, because the stories would keep coming, but I would be very lazy about it, in part because I might be indulging in all sorts of travel and other indulgences, and there are only so many hours in a day.
Nicola Cornick:
I've always been fascinated by the stories of people who win millions on the
lottery to the extent that I once wrote a book, The Earl's Prize, about a Regency heroine who found a winning lottery ticket. I love speculating on what changes might occur in people's lives as a result of all those millions of pounds – how their circumstances and character might change, the doors that would open, the opportunities that would come their way, and the drawbacks as well.
I don't often play the lottery myself so whilst I might cherish a vague dream of winning lots of money it's not going to happen whilst I fail to buy a ticket. This doesn't really matter to me—I feel very content and fortunate in my life so I think that if I won a lot of money I wouldn't want to change much. I suspect most writers would say that they would keep on writing. The desire to write our stories comes from deep down and for as long as it is there we will carry on writing, regardless of our circumstances.
Whether I would write something different though, that's an interesting question. Writing may be a vocation but it's also a means of earning a living for a lot of writers and if that's the case you do need to write what the market wants. With freedom from financial constraints comes the choice to write what you want instead. I feel lucky because I am doing that at the moment but if I knew I'd never have to worry about money again I would probably try out other sorts of fiction as well – crime and thrillers – and non fiction too! Oh, and I would buy a little writing studio by the sea to write in!
Mary Jo Putney:
I've never speculated about this personally because I don't play the lottery. But if I did play and won serious money? Well, I could retire now and not starve, yet I keep writing, so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't change.
The closest I've come to writing this kind of financial bonanza was in my third contemporary, An Imperfect Process. (Originally published as Twist of Fate.) The heroine in that book, Val, was a successful corporate lawyer. In the previous story, she took time off to act as a high level assistant to her actress friend, Rainey, who was directing her first movie and needed back up.
Val's book starts when she learns that Rainey's movie has been so successful that a large chunk of money is coming to Val. So what does she want to do? Given that Val had a rather insecure childhood, she thinks in terms of saving and investment, until a friend kicks her to figure out what she really wants. After some soul searching, Val realizes that she really does love the law, but she's tired of being a corporate litigator. So she starts her own practice so that she can do "good cause" law–helping people who need legal help and can't afford it. Which is how she becomes involved in a wrongful conviction case, trying to get an innocent man off Death Row. (And along the way, she meets a guy, of course. <G>)
So if I won the lottery, I'd probably set up a foundation to help women, children, and cats in need. That sounds pretty good, actually!
Joanna Bourne:
Oh yes. I'd keep on writing. I don't even think I'd change the way I write. I'd stick to my lackadaisical, 
slapdash writing style and be just as inefficient as I am now.
Tell you what, though. I'd go buy me a little mountaintop shack in some tropical place with the sea sparkling down below. I'd go there sometimes and live on papaya and fresh fish. While I was writing I'd look out over the water and drink mint tea.
So I would be writing the same stuff, but in a different, brighter frame of mind. Maybe that would creep into the stories. My folks would stop haunting the sordid byways of major European cities and hop around the cheerful, sandy Caribbean instead.
Andrea/Cara:
Absolutely—from my hilltop stone farmhouse in Tuscany, overlooking the vineyard and olive orchards (because, y’know, a girl has to stop for an occasional snack of chianti and semolina bread dipped in fresh pressed oil) . . . or when it’s too warm in Italy I might head to the beach house set on the rosehip-covered sand dunes of Sconset in Nantucket . . .
Seriously, I don’t spend too much time plotting what to do with the winning lottery ticket, as I never bother to buy them. (As I tell a friend, who regularly does,: “I hope you have a Plan B.”) These day, I think very few authors write because they expect to make gobs of money. Publishing is a very difficult business, full of rejections and frustrations, so though it may sound trite, most of us toil away because we have a passion for storytelling. If I did, perchance, stumble onto a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, that wouldn’t change my love of language and the endlessly interesting ways of crafting characters and plots. I would, however, feel I had the luxury to work on several ideas that are currently on the back burner. They are projects that will test my mettle and challenge me to take my skills to a new level. And that will demand the sort of time and dedication that I currently can’t give to them right now, because of, well, Life and all the mundane daily demands. However, if the divinely handsome Italian sommelier were to bring me prosecco in bed every morning, I’m sure the words would flow like meltingly warm Tuscan sunshine!
Susan King:
What would I do if I won a huge lottery? Breathe an equally huge sigh of relief and then make certain that family and friends are taken care of to make life smoother for them. I'd set up a foundation to help families with hospitalized children. (It's personal, I get it, and it would be nice to lift some of those financial burdens.) And then – another big sigh of relief, because finally I will be free to write the books I really want to write, 
with the time to jump in with both feet.
Like the other Wenches–and my guess is every other dedicated writer–I'd keep writing. The stories are still there and always will be, regardless of circumstance. The difference would be the freedom and support to write faster with less stress in greater creature comfort. A home here, a home in Scotland, a quiet and serene place to write …
Really all I need is a quiet place to write and the freedom to do so, and that I pretty much have already, give or take the size of the bank account! So for that, I'm grateful.
One of my heroines has experienced that sort of huge windfall — Meg MacNeill in Taming the Heiress, who comes from a simple life on a Hebridean isle and unexpectedly inherits an enormous fortune. She learns to behave as a sophisticated mainland lady rather than a barefoot island girl — and then returns to help the people of her island just as an engineer shows up with a crew to construct a lighthouse on an ancient and haunted rock that now belongs to Meg and the islanders. Much adventure and romance ensues…. And just now Taming the Heiress is on sale in ebook for 99 cents!
Anne Gracie:
For a start, I'd never win the lottery, simply because I never buy lottery tickets. That said, if I did come into a fortune and had mega millions to splash around, I think I'd change where I lived, but not what I did. I'd 
probably buy a house on a beach somewhere so I could look out over the sea and its constantly changing moods. A view like this, perhaps, which is where I go for my annual writing retreat with a group of writer friends.
But I probably wouldn't stop writing. I can't imagine not writing. Stories come to me all the time, and it's just a question of which ones I'll write. Money is not the constraint on my writing, time is.
I might be a bit more varied and adventurous in what I write, but I don't know — I like writing in my current time period and genre and I think I'd want to continue. I'd also like to write contemporary romantic comedy, and maybe fantasy, but I could write those now, if I had the time. Self publishing has opened up a huge range of options for writers, and the choices are there, but I like having a publisher and a deadline. I find deadlines help me enormously.
Are you as creative (or non-creative!) as the wenches in choosing what you would do with mega-millions? Give us your best shot!
I’m not a professional author, but even if I were, I wouldn’t change anything about how I live. People get themselves in trouble when they do that.
It is a funny thing how giving someone $10,000 can improve their life remarkably, but giving them $100,000,000 can wreck it utterly. I suspect that’s when you find out who your friends are — and how few of them are genuine. And I won’t even talk about what happens in families 🙁 Unless you’re raised with that kind of wealth, its sudden acquisition when you haven’t been taught how to deal with it is like being hit by a meteor. No good comes of it.
This is a frequent theme in our favorite regencies – the hero or heroine who inherits vast wealth unexpectedly and spends the rest of the book trying to discern who is genuine and who is just in it to get his/her hands on the dosh. It’s very hurtful to find out that someone you loved is a rat.
St. Paul was right — lottery winnings in moderation only, please 😉
I’m not a professional author, but even if I were, I wouldn’t change anything about how I live. People get themselves in trouble when they do that.
It is a funny thing how giving someone $10,000 can improve their life remarkably, but giving them $100,000,000 can wreck it utterly. I suspect that’s when you find out who your friends are — and how few of them are genuine. And I won’t even talk about what happens in families 🙁 Unless you’re raised with that kind of wealth, its sudden acquisition when you haven’t been taught how to deal with it is like being hit by a meteor. No good comes of it.
This is a frequent theme in our favorite regencies – the hero or heroine who inherits vast wealth unexpectedly and spends the rest of the book trying to discern who is genuine and who is just in it to get his/her hands on the dosh. It’s very hurtful to find out that someone you loved is a rat.
St. Paul was right — lottery winnings in moderation only, please 😉
I’m not a professional author, but even if I were, I wouldn’t change anything about how I live. People get themselves in trouble when they do that.
It is a funny thing how giving someone $10,000 can improve their life remarkably, but giving them $100,000,000 can wreck it utterly. I suspect that’s when you find out who your friends are — and how few of them are genuine. And I won’t even talk about what happens in families 🙁 Unless you’re raised with that kind of wealth, its sudden acquisition when you haven’t been taught how to deal with it is like being hit by a meteor. No good comes of it.
This is a frequent theme in our favorite regencies – the hero or heroine who inherits vast wealth unexpectedly and spends the rest of the book trying to discern who is genuine and who is just in it to get his/her hands on the dosh. It’s very hurtful to find out that someone you loved is a rat.
St. Paul was right — lottery winnings in moderation only, please 😉
I’m not a professional author, but even if I were, I wouldn’t change anything about how I live. People get themselves in trouble when they do that.
It is a funny thing how giving someone $10,000 can improve their life remarkably, but giving them $100,000,000 can wreck it utterly. I suspect that’s when you find out who your friends are — and how few of them are genuine. And I won’t even talk about what happens in families 🙁 Unless you’re raised with that kind of wealth, its sudden acquisition when you haven’t been taught how to deal with it is like being hit by a meteor. No good comes of it.
This is a frequent theme in our favorite regencies – the hero or heroine who inherits vast wealth unexpectedly and spends the rest of the book trying to discern who is genuine and who is just in it to get his/her hands on the dosh. It’s very hurtful to find out that someone you loved is a rat.
St. Paul was right — lottery winnings in moderation only, please 😉
I’m not a professional author, but even if I were, I wouldn’t change anything about how I live. People get themselves in trouble when they do that.
It is a funny thing how giving someone $10,000 can improve their life remarkably, but giving them $100,000,000 can wreck it utterly. I suspect that’s when you find out who your friends are — and how few of them are genuine. And I won’t even talk about what happens in families 🙁 Unless you’re raised with that kind of wealth, its sudden acquisition when you haven’t been taught how to deal with it is like being hit by a meteor. No good comes of it.
This is a frequent theme in our favorite regencies – the hero or heroine who inherits vast wealth unexpectedly and spends the rest of the book trying to discern who is genuine and who is just in it to get his/her hands on the dosh. It’s very hurtful to find out that someone you loved is a rat.
St. Paul was right — lottery winnings in moderation only, please 😉
My parents won the lottery when I was a baby, but unfortunately for them a few people had the same numbers! I think they bought their house, so it wasn’t like they came away with nothing. However, apparently my father was so excited he might be a gazillionaire the next day, and turn up at work driving a Ferrari, and then…
Anne – is that picture at the Gold Coast?
My parents won the lottery when I was a baby, but unfortunately for them a few people had the same numbers! I think they bought their house, so it wasn’t like they came away with nothing. However, apparently my father was so excited he might be a gazillionaire the next day, and turn up at work driving a Ferrari, and then…
Anne – is that picture at the Gold Coast?
My parents won the lottery when I was a baby, but unfortunately for them a few people had the same numbers! I think they bought their house, so it wasn’t like they came away with nothing. However, apparently my father was so excited he might be a gazillionaire the next day, and turn up at work driving a Ferrari, and then…
Anne – is that picture at the Gold Coast?
My parents won the lottery when I was a baby, but unfortunately for them a few people had the same numbers! I think they bought their house, so it wasn’t like they came away with nothing. However, apparently my father was so excited he might be a gazillionaire the next day, and turn up at work driving a Ferrari, and then…
Anne – is that picture at the Gold Coast?
My parents won the lottery when I was a baby, but unfortunately for them a few people had the same numbers! I think they bought their house, so it wasn’t like they came away with nothing. However, apparently my father was so excited he might be a gazillionaire the next day, and turn up at work driving a Ferrari, and then…
Anne – is that picture at the Gold Coast?
I forgot – I also know someone who won $100 000 on a scratch lotto ticket (scratchcard, I think they’re called overseas). So, if someone puts a few in your birthday card, make sure you scratch them!!
I forgot – I also know someone who won $100 000 on a scratch lotto ticket (scratchcard, I think they’re called overseas). So, if someone puts a few in your birthday card, make sure you scratch them!!
I forgot – I also know someone who won $100 000 on a scratch lotto ticket (scratchcard, I think they’re called overseas). So, if someone puts a few in your birthday card, make sure you scratch them!!
I forgot – I also know someone who won $100 000 on a scratch lotto ticket (scratchcard, I think they’re called overseas). So, if someone puts a few in your birthday card, make sure you scratch them!!
I forgot – I also know someone who won $100 000 on a scratch lotto ticket (scratchcard, I think they’re called overseas). So, if someone puts a few in your birthday card, make sure you scratch them!!
I think I’d like to add any material in excess is bad for health and welfare! I’m not as certain if we can have too much emotional support, but I suspect that’s possible also!
I think I’d like to add any material in excess is bad for health and welfare! I’m not as certain if we can have too much emotional support, but I suspect that’s possible also!
I think I’d like to add any material in excess is bad for health and welfare! I’m not as certain if we can have too much emotional support, but I suspect that’s possible also!
I think I’d like to add any material in excess is bad for health and welfare! I’m not as certain if we can have too much emotional support, but I suspect that’s possible also!
I think I’d like to add any material in excess is bad for health and welfare! I’m not as certain if we can have too much emotional support, but I suspect that’s possible also!
As Janice says, $100k is a nice little windfall that most people could use or lose as suits their nature without hurting themselves. But how lovely that your father won enough to buy a house!
As Janice says, $100k is a nice little windfall that most people could use or lose as suits their nature without hurting themselves. But how lovely that your father won enough to buy a house!
As Janice says, $100k is a nice little windfall that most people could use or lose as suits their nature without hurting themselves. But how lovely that your father won enough to buy a house!
As Janice says, $100k is a nice little windfall that most people could use or lose as suits their nature without hurting themselves. But how lovely that your father won enough to buy a house!
As Janice says, $100k is a nice little windfall that most people could use or lose as suits their nature without hurting themselves. But how lovely that your father won enough to buy a house!
Mostly what I would do if I won the lottery is stop worrying and get stuff fixed. But I wouldn’t stop writing. That would be like stopping breathing.
Mostly what I would do if I won the lottery is stop worrying and get stuff fixed. But I wouldn’t stop writing. That would be like stopping breathing.
Mostly what I would do if I won the lottery is stop worrying and get stuff fixed. But I wouldn’t stop writing. That would be like stopping breathing.
Mostly what I would do if I won the lottery is stop worrying and get stuff fixed. But I wouldn’t stop writing. That would be like stopping breathing.
Mostly what I would do if I won the lottery is stop worrying and get stuff fixed. But I wouldn’t stop writing. That would be like stopping breathing.
So true! Besides, what we would do with ourselves all day?
So true! Besides, what we would do with ourselves all day?
So true! Besides, what we would do with ourselves all day?
So true! Besides, what we would do with ourselves all day?
So true! Besides, what we would do with ourselves all day?
Hi Sonya — yes it’s a little south of the Gold Coast. Not as glitzy as Surfers, but gorgeous beaches and plenty of good little restaurants to feed us. I go every year with a group of other professional writers, and we work — we all have deadlines — and brainstorm and share and discuss what we have learned in the past year or so. And we swim in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons, and in the evening we gather to drink wine (or soda water) and talk and laugh. It’s always a highlight of my year.
Hi Sonya — yes it’s a little south of the Gold Coast. Not as glitzy as Surfers, but gorgeous beaches and plenty of good little restaurants to feed us. I go every year with a group of other professional writers, and we work — we all have deadlines — and brainstorm and share and discuss what we have learned in the past year or so. And we swim in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons, and in the evening we gather to drink wine (or soda water) and talk and laugh. It’s always a highlight of my year.
Hi Sonya — yes it’s a little south of the Gold Coast. Not as glitzy as Surfers, but gorgeous beaches and plenty of good little restaurants to feed us. I go every year with a group of other professional writers, and we work — we all have deadlines — and brainstorm and share and discuss what we have learned in the past year or so. And we swim in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons, and in the evening we gather to drink wine (or soda water) and talk and laugh. It’s always a highlight of my year.
Hi Sonya — yes it’s a little south of the Gold Coast. Not as glitzy as Surfers, but gorgeous beaches and plenty of good little restaurants to feed us. I go every year with a group of other professional writers, and we work — we all have deadlines — and brainstorm and share and discuss what we have learned in the past year or so. And we swim in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons, and in the evening we gather to drink wine (or soda water) and talk and laugh. It’s always a highlight of my year.
Hi Sonya — yes it’s a little south of the Gold Coast. Not as glitzy as Surfers, but gorgeous beaches and plenty of good little restaurants to feed us. I go every year with a group of other professional writers, and we work — we all have deadlines — and brainstorm and share and discuss what we have learned in the past year or so. And we swim in the mornings and sometimes the afternoons, and in the evening we gather to drink wine (or soda water) and talk and laugh. It’s always a highlight of my year.
I would invest most if it so that I could continue to live life easier as I get older. Definitely work at something else other than what I do now that is more enjoyable and easier on my health. Buy a house for my parents and myself that was more accommodating for our ages and employ help to do the things that get harder to do, like shovel a foot of snow!!! Enjoy the simple little things in life that I don’t have time to because everyday life things get in the way, like seeing my crocuses in my garden for longer than two seconds as I run out the door to work! Read, read, and read!!! But more, as it is one of the true pleasures that I make time for. Spend more time with my friends, as time grows more precious everyday and money can’t buy time or friends or happiness.
I would invest most if it so that I could continue to live life easier as I get older. Definitely work at something else other than what I do now that is more enjoyable and easier on my health. Buy a house for my parents and myself that was more accommodating for our ages and employ help to do the things that get harder to do, like shovel a foot of snow!!! Enjoy the simple little things in life that I don’t have time to because everyday life things get in the way, like seeing my crocuses in my garden for longer than two seconds as I run out the door to work! Read, read, and read!!! But more, as it is one of the true pleasures that I make time for. Spend more time with my friends, as time grows more precious everyday and money can’t buy time or friends or happiness.
I would invest most if it so that I could continue to live life easier as I get older. Definitely work at something else other than what I do now that is more enjoyable and easier on my health. Buy a house for my parents and myself that was more accommodating for our ages and employ help to do the things that get harder to do, like shovel a foot of snow!!! Enjoy the simple little things in life that I don’t have time to because everyday life things get in the way, like seeing my crocuses in my garden for longer than two seconds as I run out the door to work! Read, read, and read!!! But more, as it is one of the true pleasures that I make time for. Spend more time with my friends, as time grows more precious everyday and money can’t buy time or friends or happiness.
I would invest most if it so that I could continue to live life easier as I get older. Definitely work at something else other than what I do now that is more enjoyable and easier on my health. Buy a house for my parents and myself that was more accommodating for our ages and employ help to do the things that get harder to do, like shovel a foot of snow!!! Enjoy the simple little things in life that I don’t have time to because everyday life things get in the way, like seeing my crocuses in my garden for longer than two seconds as I run out the door to work! Read, read, and read!!! But more, as it is one of the true pleasures that I make time for. Spend more time with my friends, as time grows more precious everyday and money can’t buy time or friends or happiness.
I would invest most if it so that I could continue to live life easier as I get older. Definitely work at something else other than what I do now that is more enjoyable and easier on my health. Buy a house for my parents and myself that was more accommodating for our ages and employ help to do the things that get harder to do, like shovel a foot of snow!!! Enjoy the simple little things in life that I don’t have time to because everyday life things get in the way, like seeing my crocuses in my garden for longer than two seconds as I run out the door to work! Read, read, and read!!! But more, as it is one of the true pleasures that I make time for. Spend more time with my friends, as time grows more precious everyday and money can’t buy time or friends or happiness.
First I would emulate Scrooge McDuck then I would buy a piece of Green land & put a really high fence around it and I would hire guards to keep my greedy relatives out. Yes I know that is selfish & self serving but then you haven’t met my relatives and anyway this is my fantasy not theirs. I would buy as many books of my favourite Authors find a bug free shady spot and read until my eyes popped out.
First I would emulate Scrooge McDuck then I would buy a piece of Green land & put a really high fence around it and I would hire guards to keep my greedy relatives out. Yes I know that is selfish & self serving but then you haven’t met my relatives and anyway this is my fantasy not theirs. I would buy as many books of my favourite Authors find a bug free shady spot and read until my eyes popped out.
First I would emulate Scrooge McDuck then I would buy a piece of Green land & put a really high fence around it and I would hire guards to keep my greedy relatives out. Yes I know that is selfish & self serving but then you haven’t met my relatives and anyway this is my fantasy not theirs. I would buy as many books of my favourite Authors find a bug free shady spot and read until my eyes popped out.
First I would emulate Scrooge McDuck then I would buy a piece of Green land & put a really high fence around it and I would hire guards to keep my greedy relatives out. Yes I know that is selfish & self serving but then you haven’t met my relatives and anyway this is my fantasy not theirs. I would buy as many books of my favourite Authors find a bug free shady spot and read until my eyes popped out.
First I would emulate Scrooge McDuck then I would buy a piece of Green land & put a really high fence around it and I would hire guards to keep my greedy relatives out. Yes I know that is selfish & self serving but then you haven’t met my relatives and anyway this is my fantasy not theirs. I would buy as many books of my favourite Authors find a bug free shady spot and read until my eyes popped out.
I do buy a lottery ticket from time to time. I’d pay all the bills owing even some long delayed student loans, put aside money to pay for future health problems of family members, put money into some of the programs at church, and quit work. I would fix up a writing room with comfortable work space and finally finish and publish the works that have been in progress too long.
Then I’d invite some friends to take a research trip to England with me.
I do buy a lottery ticket from time to time. I’d pay all the bills owing even some long delayed student loans, put aside money to pay for future health problems of family members, put money into some of the programs at church, and quit work. I would fix up a writing room with comfortable work space and finally finish and publish the works that have been in progress too long.
Then I’d invite some friends to take a research trip to England with me.
I do buy a lottery ticket from time to time. I’d pay all the bills owing even some long delayed student loans, put aside money to pay for future health problems of family members, put money into some of the programs at church, and quit work. I would fix up a writing room with comfortable work space and finally finish and publish the works that have been in progress too long.
Then I’d invite some friends to take a research trip to England with me.
I do buy a lottery ticket from time to time. I’d pay all the bills owing even some long delayed student loans, put aside money to pay for future health problems of family members, put money into some of the programs at church, and quit work. I would fix up a writing room with comfortable work space and finally finish and publish the works that have been in progress too long.
Then I’d invite some friends to take a research trip to England with me.
I do buy a lottery ticket from time to time. I’d pay all the bills owing even some long delayed student loans, put aside money to pay for future health problems of family members, put money into some of the programs at church, and quit work. I would fix up a writing room with comfortable work space and finally finish and publish the works that have been in progress too long.
Then I’d invite some friends to take a research trip to England with me.
So funny: The ad/advert at the bottom of my screen for this blog email started out, “If you have a $500,000 portfolio …”
So funny: The ad/advert at the bottom of my screen for this blog email started out, “If you have a $500,000 portfolio …”
So funny: The ad/advert at the bottom of my screen for this blog email started out, “If you have a $500,000 portfolio …”
So funny: The ad/advert at the bottom of my screen for this blog email started out, “If you have a $500,000 portfolio …”
So funny: The ad/advert at the bottom of my screen for this blog email started out, “If you have a $500,000 portfolio …”
I faithfully spend $1 every week and then have to revise my budget yet again every week when I fail to win. But if I did, my dream would be to buy a house big enough to unbox and unstack all the books my husband and I have stashed in every corner of our small hovel, then hire someone to help me keep the place clean, and then give up my day job so I could spend more daylight hours procrastinating over my still-being-written novels. It is an absolutely delicious dream and well-worth the $1 it costs me every week!
I faithfully spend $1 every week and then have to revise my budget yet again every week when I fail to win. But if I did, my dream would be to buy a house big enough to unbox and unstack all the books my husband and I have stashed in every corner of our small hovel, then hire someone to help me keep the place clean, and then give up my day job so I could spend more daylight hours procrastinating over my still-being-written novels. It is an absolutely delicious dream and well-worth the $1 it costs me every week!
I faithfully spend $1 every week and then have to revise my budget yet again every week when I fail to win. But if I did, my dream would be to buy a house big enough to unbox and unstack all the books my husband and I have stashed in every corner of our small hovel, then hire someone to help me keep the place clean, and then give up my day job so I could spend more daylight hours procrastinating over my still-being-written novels. It is an absolutely delicious dream and well-worth the $1 it costs me every week!
I faithfully spend $1 every week and then have to revise my budget yet again every week when I fail to win. But if I did, my dream would be to buy a house big enough to unbox and unstack all the books my husband and I have stashed in every corner of our small hovel, then hire someone to help me keep the place clean, and then give up my day job so I could spend more daylight hours procrastinating over my still-being-written novels. It is an absolutely delicious dream and well-worth the $1 it costs me every week!
I faithfully spend $1 every week and then have to revise my budget yet again every week when I fail to win. But if I did, my dream would be to buy a house big enough to unbox and unstack all the books my husband and I have stashed in every corner of our small hovel, then hire someone to help me keep the place clean, and then give up my day job so I could spend more daylight hours procrastinating over my still-being-written novels. It is an absolutely delicious dream and well-worth the $1 it costs me every week!
I definitely would change where I live now because I’m living where there is drought and heat and it does not agree with me. I would love to live on or near the Pacific Coast because of the wet and coolness. But when I was younger I probably would’ve given a lot of it to my children.
I definitely would change where I live now because I’m living where there is drought and heat and it does not agree with me. I would love to live on or near the Pacific Coast because of the wet and coolness. But when I was younger I probably would’ve given a lot of it to my children.
I definitely would change where I live now because I’m living where there is drought and heat and it does not agree with me. I would love to live on or near the Pacific Coast because of the wet and coolness. But when I was younger I probably would’ve given a lot of it to my children.
I definitely would change where I live now because I’m living where there is drought and heat and it does not agree with me. I would love to live on or near the Pacific Coast because of the wet and coolness. But when I was younger I probably would’ve given a lot of it to my children.
I definitely would change where I live now because I’m living where there is drought and heat and it does not agree with me. I would love to live on or near the Pacific Coast because of the wet and coolness. But when I was younger I probably would’ve given a lot of it to my children.
oh yes, that sounds lovely! We all need more time in our days for the simple pleasures!
oh yes, that sounds lovely! We all need more time in our days for the simple pleasures!
oh yes, that sounds lovely! We all need more time in our days for the simple pleasures!
oh yes, that sounds lovely! We all need more time in our days for the simple pleasures!
oh yes, that sounds lovely! We all need more time in our days for the simple pleasures!
LOL! I love it. I’ve often dreamed of a desert island.
LOL! I love it. I’ve often dreamed of a desert island.
LOL! I love it. I’ve often dreamed of a desert island.
LOL! I love it. I’ve often dreamed of a desert island.
LOL! I love it. I’ve often dreamed of a desert island.
I was wondering how many people would quit their jobs. Really, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do what we enjoy.
I was wondering how many people would quit their jobs. Really, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do what we enjoy.
I was wondering how many people would quit their jobs. Really, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do what we enjoy.
I was wondering how many people would quit their jobs. Really, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do what we enjoy.
I was wondering how many people would quit their jobs. Really, we don’t give ourselves enough time to do what we enjoy.
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Go for it! My daughter goes together with a group of people at work each investing their $1 so they have more possible numbers. We’re all entitled to dream–although I have to wonder if her employer will have any employees left if they win.
Go for it! My daughter goes together with a group of people at work each investing their $1 so they have more possible numbers. We’re all entitled to dream–although I have to wonder if her employer will have any employees left if they win.
Go for it! My daughter goes together with a group of people at work each investing their $1 so they have more possible numbers. We’re all entitled to dream–although I have to wonder if her employer will have any employees left if they win.
Go for it! My daughter goes together with a group of people at work each investing their $1 so they have more possible numbers. We’re all entitled to dream–although I have to wonder if her employer will have any employees left if they win.
Go for it! My daughter goes together with a group of people at work each investing their $1 so they have more possible numbers. We’re all entitled to dream–although I have to wonder if her employer will have any employees left if they win.
We saved our pennies all our lives so we could live where it’s warm and we wouldn’t have to dig snow! Changing houses and locations seems to be a theme here!
We saved our pennies all our lives so we could live where it’s warm and we wouldn’t have to dig snow! Changing houses and locations seems to be a theme here!
We saved our pennies all our lives so we could live where it’s warm and we wouldn’t have to dig snow! Changing houses and locations seems to be a theme here!
We saved our pennies all our lives so we could live where it’s warm and we wouldn’t have to dig snow! Changing houses and locations seems to be a theme here!
We saved our pennies all our lives so we could live where it’s warm and we wouldn’t have to dig snow! Changing houses and locations seems to be a theme here!
I once won $1,756 in the California lottery. I paid some bills and I bought a nice pearl ring. It was fun for a few days, then I forgot about it until just now. It made my life more pleasant for a bit and then it didn’t matter anymore.
If it had been $17,560,000, would I have quit my job? I dunno. I liked my job, I was good at it, and I liked the assortment of people I worked for then. So probably not. I suspect I would have bought a house with a back yard and a garage, and made myself a proper reading room 🙂
In my line of work I saw what the effect of large inheritances (and sitting around waiting for them for years) did to people. I think I was lucky not to win more.
I once won $1,756 in the California lottery. I paid some bills and I bought a nice pearl ring. It was fun for a few days, then I forgot about it until just now. It made my life more pleasant for a bit and then it didn’t matter anymore.
If it had been $17,560,000, would I have quit my job? I dunno. I liked my job, I was good at it, and I liked the assortment of people I worked for then. So probably not. I suspect I would have bought a house with a back yard and a garage, and made myself a proper reading room 🙂
In my line of work I saw what the effect of large inheritances (and sitting around waiting for them for years) did to people. I think I was lucky not to win more.
I once won $1,756 in the California lottery. I paid some bills and I bought a nice pearl ring. It was fun for a few days, then I forgot about it until just now. It made my life more pleasant for a bit and then it didn’t matter anymore.
If it had been $17,560,000, would I have quit my job? I dunno. I liked my job, I was good at it, and I liked the assortment of people I worked for then. So probably not. I suspect I would have bought a house with a back yard and a garage, and made myself a proper reading room 🙂
In my line of work I saw what the effect of large inheritances (and sitting around waiting for them for years) did to people. I think I was lucky not to win more.
I once won $1,756 in the California lottery. I paid some bills and I bought a nice pearl ring. It was fun for a few days, then I forgot about it until just now. It made my life more pleasant for a bit and then it didn’t matter anymore.
If it had been $17,560,000, would I have quit my job? I dunno. I liked my job, I was good at it, and I liked the assortment of people I worked for then. So probably not. I suspect I would have bought a house with a back yard and a garage, and made myself a proper reading room 🙂
In my line of work I saw what the effect of large inheritances (and sitting around waiting for them for years) did to people. I think I was lucky not to win more.
I once won $1,756 in the California lottery. I paid some bills and I bought a nice pearl ring. It was fun for a few days, then I forgot about it until just now. It made my life more pleasant for a bit and then it didn’t matter anymore.
If it had been $17,560,000, would I have quit my job? I dunno. I liked my job, I was good at it, and I liked the assortment of people I worked for then. So probably not. I suspect I would have bought a house with a back yard and a garage, and made myself a proper reading room 🙂
In my line of work I saw what the effect of large inheritances (and sitting around waiting for them for years) did to people. I think I was lucky not to win more.
too much money brings its own set of problems, doesn’t it? How do you invest it? Who do you trust with it? How do you avoid taxes on it? 😉
too much money brings its own set of problems, doesn’t it? How do you invest it? Who do you trust with it? How do you avoid taxes on it? 😉
too much money brings its own set of problems, doesn’t it? How do you invest it? Who do you trust with it? How do you avoid taxes on it? 😉
too much money brings its own set of problems, doesn’t it? How do you invest it? Who do you trust with it? How do you avoid taxes on it? 😉
too much money brings its own set of problems, doesn’t it? How do you invest it? Who do you trust with it? How do you avoid taxes on it? 😉
We just went on a trip to Coolangatta, and I loved that it wasn’t as glitzy. ☺ Such a nice area.
We just went on a trip to Coolangatta, and I loved that it wasn’t as glitzy. ☺ Such a nice area.
We just went on a trip to Coolangatta, and I loved that it wasn’t as glitzy. ☺ Such a nice area.
We just went on a trip to Coolangatta, and I loved that it wasn’t as glitzy. ☺ Such a nice area.
We just went on a trip to Coolangatta, and I loved that it wasn’t as glitzy. ☺ Such a nice area.
Yep – he cannot really complain! But because he expected to be a millionaire, and then it didn’t happen…! Poor idiot!
Yep – he cannot really complain! But because he expected to be a millionaire, and then it didn’t happen…! Poor idiot!
Yep – he cannot really complain! But because he expected to be a millionaire, and then it didn’t happen…! Poor idiot!
Yep – he cannot really complain! But because he expected to be a millionaire, and then it didn’t happen…! Poor idiot!
Yep – he cannot really complain! But because he expected to be a millionaire, and then it didn’t happen…! Poor idiot!
I don’t buy lottery tickets either, but if I had a big windfall I would indulge in some expensive cruises. And donate to my favorite charities, pay off my nieces’ college loans, and maybe buy a place in a nice warm area to escape the winter. Although I know from experience, having owned a weekend/summer house once, that living in multiple homes is a bit of a pain. It seemed as though the object you were looking for, whether it was a book, a cooking spice, or a favorite piece of clothing, was always in the “other” house.
I don’t buy lottery tickets either, but if I had a big windfall I would indulge in some expensive cruises. And donate to my favorite charities, pay off my nieces’ college loans, and maybe buy a place in a nice warm area to escape the winter. Although I know from experience, having owned a weekend/summer house once, that living in multiple homes is a bit of a pain. It seemed as though the object you were looking for, whether it was a book, a cooking spice, or a favorite piece of clothing, was always in the “other” house.
I don’t buy lottery tickets either, but if I had a big windfall I would indulge in some expensive cruises. And donate to my favorite charities, pay off my nieces’ college loans, and maybe buy a place in a nice warm area to escape the winter. Although I know from experience, having owned a weekend/summer house once, that living in multiple homes is a bit of a pain. It seemed as though the object you were looking for, whether it was a book, a cooking spice, or a favorite piece of clothing, was always in the “other” house.
I don’t buy lottery tickets either, but if I had a big windfall I would indulge in some expensive cruises. And donate to my favorite charities, pay off my nieces’ college loans, and maybe buy a place in a nice warm area to escape the winter. Although I know from experience, having owned a weekend/summer house once, that living in multiple homes is a bit of a pain. It seemed as though the object you were looking for, whether it was a book, a cooking spice, or a favorite piece of clothing, was always in the “other” house.
I don’t buy lottery tickets either, but if I had a big windfall I would indulge in some expensive cruises. And donate to my favorite charities, pay off my nieces’ college loans, and maybe buy a place in a nice warm area to escape the winter. Although I know from experience, having owned a weekend/summer house once, that living in multiple homes is a bit of a pain. It seemed as though the object you were looking for, whether it was a book, a cooking spice, or a favorite piece of clothing, was always in the “other” house.
If you have that much money, pay the taxes, I say 🙂 Tax avoidance is just another form of greed. I never met a likeable tax evader. They’d be the greedy barons in the wenches’ stories 🙂
If you have that much money, pay the taxes, I say 🙂 Tax avoidance is just another form of greed. I never met a likeable tax evader. They’d be the greedy barons in the wenches’ stories 🙂
If you have that much money, pay the taxes, I say 🙂 Tax avoidance is just another form of greed. I never met a likeable tax evader. They’d be the greedy barons in the wenches’ stories 🙂
If you have that much money, pay the taxes, I say 🙂 Tax avoidance is just another form of greed. I never met a likeable tax evader. They’d be the greedy barons in the wenches’ stories 🙂
If you have that much money, pay the taxes, I say 🙂 Tax avoidance is just another form of greed. I never met a likeable tax evader. They’d be the greedy barons in the wenches’ stories 🙂
I certainly agree that we should all pay our fair share, but yeah, greedy barons rather smoke, drink, or play it. 😉
I certainly agree that we should all pay our fair share, but yeah, greedy barons rather smoke, drink, or play it. 😉
I certainly agree that we should all pay our fair share, but yeah, greedy barons rather smoke, drink, or play it. 😉
I certainly agree that we should all pay our fair share, but yeah, greedy barons rather smoke, drink, or play it. 😉
I certainly agree that we should all pay our fair share, but yeah, greedy barons rather smoke, drink, or play it. 😉
You confirm what I’ve always suspected! I’ve always dreamed of a winter and summer house, but my organizational skills would be tested to the max!
You confirm what I’ve always suspected! I’ve always dreamed of a winter and summer house, but my organizational skills would be tested to the max!
You confirm what I’ve always suspected! I’ve always dreamed of a winter and summer house, but my organizational skills would be tested to the max!
You confirm what I’ve always suspected! I’ve always dreamed of a winter and summer house, but my organizational skills would be tested to the max!
You confirm what I’ve always suspected! I’ve always dreamed of a winter and summer house, but my organizational skills would be tested to the max!
If I won the lottery or came into a fortune the first thing I would do is quit my job at Walmart! I am certain everyone who knows me got that answer in one. And as to writing, I would write MORE, MORE, MORE !! I would pay off my bills, take care of Mom’s bills, have a nice little cottage built – nothing ostentatious – a nice English-style cottage with a small kitchen and laundry room, a sitting-room, a nice bathroom, a nice master bedroom, an indoor outdoor kennel area for the dogs to spend time outdoors if they like or lounge in a nice Florida room if they don’t and a HUGE library where I could write. Perhaps an extra bedroom for any stray writers who want to stop by to visit. And I would travel to do my research.
If I won the lottery or came into a fortune the first thing I would do is quit my job at Walmart! I am certain everyone who knows me got that answer in one. And as to writing, I would write MORE, MORE, MORE !! I would pay off my bills, take care of Mom’s bills, have a nice little cottage built – nothing ostentatious – a nice English-style cottage with a small kitchen and laundry room, a sitting-room, a nice bathroom, a nice master bedroom, an indoor outdoor kennel area for the dogs to spend time outdoors if they like or lounge in a nice Florida room if they don’t and a HUGE library where I could write. Perhaps an extra bedroom for any stray writers who want to stop by to visit. And I would travel to do my research.
If I won the lottery or came into a fortune the first thing I would do is quit my job at Walmart! I am certain everyone who knows me got that answer in one. And as to writing, I would write MORE, MORE, MORE !! I would pay off my bills, take care of Mom’s bills, have a nice little cottage built – nothing ostentatious – a nice English-style cottage with a small kitchen and laundry room, a sitting-room, a nice bathroom, a nice master bedroom, an indoor outdoor kennel area for the dogs to spend time outdoors if they like or lounge in a nice Florida room if they don’t and a HUGE library where I could write. Perhaps an extra bedroom for any stray writers who want to stop by to visit. And I would travel to do my research.
If I won the lottery or came into a fortune the first thing I would do is quit my job at Walmart! I am certain everyone who knows me got that answer in one. And as to writing, I would write MORE, MORE, MORE !! I would pay off my bills, take care of Mom’s bills, have a nice little cottage built – nothing ostentatious – a nice English-style cottage with a small kitchen and laundry room, a sitting-room, a nice bathroom, a nice master bedroom, an indoor outdoor kennel area for the dogs to spend time outdoors if they like or lounge in a nice Florida room if they don’t and a HUGE library where I could write. Perhaps an extra bedroom for any stray writers who want to stop by to visit. And I would travel to do my research.
If I won the lottery or came into a fortune the first thing I would do is quit my job at Walmart! I am certain everyone who knows me got that answer in one. And as to writing, I would write MORE, MORE, MORE !! I would pay off my bills, take care of Mom’s bills, have a nice little cottage built – nothing ostentatious – a nice English-style cottage with a small kitchen and laundry room, a sitting-room, a nice bathroom, a nice master bedroom, an indoor outdoor kennel area for the dogs to spend time outdoors if they like or lounge in a nice Florida room if they don’t and a HUGE library where I could write. Perhaps an extra bedroom for any stray writers who want to stop by to visit. And I would travel to do my research.
Go for it!
Patricia Rice
http://patriciarice.com
Go for it!
Patricia Rice
http://patriciarice.com
Go for it!
Patricia Rice
http://patriciarice.com
Go for it!
Patricia Rice
http://patriciarice.com
Go for it!
Patricia Rice
http://patriciarice.com