HOW COMFORTABLE DO YOU FEEL CALLING YOURSELF A WRITER?
I am a writer.
Do you know how long it has taken me to say this?
A few years ago I might have said, “Well, I sort of write. I try. Of course, it might not be any good…”
Would I have mentioned my blog? No, probably not.
I’ve been writing – and three years later, blogging – for thirteen years. I started when I was pregnant. Writing the first few chapters of a novel. I’ve still got it in my files somewhere.
After I had my first baby things were difficult. So I would escape into our small dining room to write. The few chapters I had written whilst pregnant evolved into something else.
I kept writing the same three chapters over and over. Trying to get them perfect. Changing names of characters. Altering the starting point. That first crucial paragraph. But I was in a continuous loop: chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, then back to the beginning and start again.
Until I joined a group of writers online and set up a blog. This literally changed my life.