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| I don’t remember many things or skills that I told this to myself about. I think one thing that I thought seemed to be an unreachable skill was in writing. Time and time again I’d think of writing a story - a novel, a book - and I’d get the same negative response from somewhere in my thoughts: it’s not something you can do, it’s too much work, it’ll be hard and so don’t even bother trying for it. But one day I started to noodle about writing in a blog form. I had enough money to pay for a blog website. Then I went on and wrote something - whatever came to mind that happened to me. Sometimes I’d blog about a trip I was planning on taking for work. Then I’d blog again about something that bothered me - about how some things didn’t seem to look right to me that I saw in the world. Then I went on and bought myself a mug from PBS.org that had The Writer’s Almanac on it. It was a brave thing to do, and I decided to ignore the strong messages that I got - YOU, a writer? That’s ridiculous, these thoughts would say. I’d counter saying that I WAS a writer. That’s what my job was about. I wrote many things for my job even though it was all technically driven. Then after a lot of sad things happened to me at work and i started to wonder if writing technical documents were all I could do and it was driving me mad, I decided to take a course in writing from a cheap online course. There I found it easy to write the assignments. That built for me a portfolio of work, which I then thought I could submit to colleges who offered MFAs. And from there I went on to take a serious program in Creative Writing. Then I went through all the coursework with good marks. I finally finished my MFA and now I’ve several books that I’ve written, some with the help of a good friend and Muse, and others in the beginning written thinking of how it might be interesting on their own. But the most important thing is that we all can do what we wish to do - it’s called improving yourself and how you might become. I’m still developing my skills at writing but I’m very proud of what I’ve published. I think even though some of these books haven’t had good reviews or only some are good, it’s a way to learn about what my audience wants to see. |
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