I pen long emails everyday. I love to blog. I love to write. My heroes growing up were Anne of Green Gables & Jo March. A friend told me that you were a writer if you could make something simple like a golf pencil seem interesting. I came up with three story ideas for a golf pencil that I thought were funny. Give me any topic like a diet product & I can think of an unusual story. I’m not tooting my own horn here, just keep reading for all of the self doubt.

So, writing for a living seemed like a natural fit, especially since there are a lot of jobs I can’t do because of fibro. I signed up with a few article companies & got to work. I really enjoy sites like ehow & bukisa because I get to pick the topic. It’s not even the topic that bothers me so much as being forced to be creative in a certain way. I hate how for some companies I have to cite every single sentence. It’s just so tedious & not fun. I’m going to keep going with it because of the money & I really want to succeed at this. It takes me a lot longer to write than the people I read about on other forums. Hopefully in time the research will become second nature & I’ll find my voice for this style. It just drove home the fact that I’m really not that informative, I’m opinionated. I just need to find a writing gig that fits with that.

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