My journey as a writer

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As a young writer

When I was young, I was creating and designing my own Word printed magazines. I can’t remember what the topic was on, but I loved creating it. My friend and I created it and it looked awesome, with our clip Art images to design it.

I would write letters to my family and friends and yes, boyfriends and yes I demanded they write me letters back. Ha! Of course back then, I would receive gifts of pretty writing paper and envelopes, a rareity to find out the shops these days but still possible!

I found in Grade 11 & 12 in High School, in English and actually the years prior to that, I really enjoyed English. I didn’t do too much fiction writing, may be none at all but it all set me up to one day be a writer.

As an adult writer

When I was in my late 20s, I realised I wanted to write a novel. I also realised, I have always loved writing so why would I not consider it a good career path to go down? It was because it was so easy to me that I didn’t even think of it as a possible career path.

I then spent years writing, writing novels and non-fiction books. I had my own digital magazine on book writing for a year, which I loved creating and filling the pages with interviews with authors and doing book reviews and even adding a spot for my own script writing. I was also a freelance business writer and had a 95% referral rate and then every 5 minutes or so free, I would pitch for the final 5% of writing for the week. I just completely embraced the world of writing.

A stop in the road for writing

And then things happen in life, massive life changes happened, which I won’t go into detail. My computer crashed and I thought, it’s a sign … I was also really burn out. I took 7 years off from writing. I kept thinking of ideas during that time but didn’t really act on it. The fear of reaching burn out again was a fearful element.

A new direction in writing

And then another life change happened … and I decided if I was going to write, I would put boundaries in place. No writing novels. No freelance writing. Just blogging. They say you should write about what you enjoy and know and that’s how I created a hobbies blog. I then created 10 more other blogs, which I have now put aside to focus on my hobbies blog. I then found an old book, I had written but never edited. So I have re-started the editing process for this historical romance. And then I wrote and published an eBook for the journey of crocheting for beginners. And now, my full focus is blogging and writing and publishing eBooks. I want to grow my blog and writing audience.

I know now, I will always write and I will always want to create more. I have other eBook ideas for books, so many, I have a list! I know I don’t want burn out, but I am so excited and passionate about writing, I don’t think I can achieve burn out. Especially because, I have a set routine of when to write. I think this is important when setting out a writing journey to avoid burnout. You can read my burn out blog here.  I also have to spend time marketing my blog. So if you want to become a writer, you do need time aside and it could be just ten minutes a day, or thirty minutes a week to schedule some marketing posts about your writing.

Marketing my writing

Marketing is easy, it’s the time that is the issue. I love checking my blog growth daily, sometimes when I’m bored a few times a day! Especially when its growing a lot. For example, today I received my highest views in a day 167 and you know what’s exciting, that number is a number in time and I will exceed that soon! That’s the cool thing about marketing, you get to see results! Your writing is being read by others and that’s a pretty cool concept to consider.

And don’t get me wrong, I still get nervous when people I know tell me they have bought one of my books, or read my review but its cool that people are using their time to read something you have worked so hard on.

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