Give It a Try
I still call myself a writer, and sure, I’ve been writing privately in my prolific journals, diaries, talk-to-texts and more, but I haven’t really been writing lately—not the kind of content that’s shareable. Over the last decade, my mom has become an ambitious and worthy writer: she graduated from Grubstreet’s Memoir Incubator Program; got her Master of Fine Arts degree at Emerson College; she wrote and published her first memoir, and her second, and she doesn’t waste time worrying about whether or not to tell people—she tells everyone. And as a former addict, Mom didn’t want to wait for more rejection letters, so she published her books herself. You can find her website here if you want to check out her books.
The really amazing thing about my mom, to me at least, and how supportive she’s become. When I complain about the 9 to 5 lifestyle, and how cramping it is (especially to a writer, and a married writer at that), she says, “I think you’re selling yourself short. Make a plan. I know you can do it.” Her enthusiasm and optimism are infectious. My Aries energy grabs hold and I hold my breath in anticipation, even as my nearly-Taurus energy pulls me back down into my feet, giving me all the reminders of why this will never work, and how my time could be spend making money and whatever.
I complain about how I can’t format content properly on my blog page (because I can’t) and how, the last time I posted to social media all the time, it never brought in any clients. But what if the content is the purpose? It was fun, and engaging. I enjoyed doing it, and some of my audience had some fun too—so why not continue doing that sort of thing?
So here is the first step of my multi-level writing plan: to post on my blog every other week, or every week. If nothing else, you get to read my crazy ideas and if you stick around, hopefully you’ll see some improvement as I dance my way into a real writing career. As a writer.