When I was ten or eleven my mom bought me a typewriter. It was an old fashioned, machine. You know, the kind with a ribbon. (Well depending how old you are, maybe you don’t know 🙂 ) I loved that old typewriter. My dream, even when I was ten was to be a writer. I wrote stories and poems and chapters of books on that old machine.
As time passed dreams gave way to goals. Days spent upstairs clacking away on my typewriter gave way to going to college and typing research papers for class. My dream disappeared into a diploma and a “real job”.
The thing about dreams is this… They may go silent, sometimes for decades, but, they never go away. They always nudge you, whether it’s blatant or from the deep recesses of your subconscious. They just don’t let go that easy.
When my daughter was born I left my “real job” and started working from home. I’ve been writing for a living for the last 10 years.
But it wasn’t until a year or so ago that I’d say I actually became a writer.
It wasn’t anything outside of myself that kept me from realizing my dream, it was 100% an inside job.
I don’t know if it was because I hadn’t published a book, or because I wasn’t writing fiction, but I definitely refused to call myself a writer.
A while back I read a blog post by Jeff Goins about calling yourself a writer. I had only been willing to call myself a blogger. For some reason I could not step into the label writer. I kept hearing, over and over, to be a writer you must write. I looked around at myself and my work and had to admit that I write. Every day.
I started asking myself the question “what would happen if you just started calling yourself a writer?” What if? What if?
Then I just started doing it. Quietly, in my head. Then I changed my “occupation” on Facebook to writer. No one came running out of the shadows screaming “Fraud! Fraud! You’re not a real writer!!” No one at all.
You know what started happening after I started calling myself a writer? I started feeling like a writer. When I started feeling like a writer I started writing more, I started getting more writing ideas, and low and behold, I wrote a book! And published it!
At the time in my life where I had to make career choices, when I had to decide who and what I was going to be there was no internet. I didn’t see any options for me to be a writer other than publishing books… And that seemed so far away from even remotely possible that I packed away my dream and made a ” better” choice for my future.
However, that’s no longer the case!! Thank heaven! The internet now makes it possible to create a writing career you love, and provides a million ways to do it (profitably).
Over the next couple weeks I’m going to dig into how you can be a writer and create a writer career you love, right from the comfort of your own home! So stay tuned!! There will be free reports, webinars, how to overcome the things that hold you back, kicking fear in the face, and so much more. Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss a post (or any of the goodies I’m going I be sharing!!)
I hope this next couple weeks will show you it is 100% possible for YOU to fulfill your dream and be a writer… not years from now, or when the kids are grown, or when you retire, but right now, today!! Eeek! I’m excited!
So make sure you subscribe and tell me in the comments what’s keeping YOU from being a writer, so we can start breaking down the barriers together.
PS. If time is one of your reasons I’d just like to say I wrote and created this entire blog post (images included) from my iPhone 4s while waiting on my car at the Toyota dealership. It really is possible to be a writer 😉
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