You know you’re a hard-core blogger when
Nov 16, 2007 Writing, work work work
…you dream about blog posts. I had a dream about Jenna and at the end of it I wrote a blog post.
Last night I went with half my writing group (Leslie and Terreece) to see Connie Schultz speak again. (She was at the Nieman Conference last year.) She told some of the same stories and I cried all over again because I’m a push-over. And I felt inspired all over again, too.
It’s the anniversary of my commitment to build a career I can respect instead of just grabbing for money. It was at the Nieman Conference where I realized that focusing totally on service (how-to articles) wasn’t helping me. I realized that I needed to put my attention to building a profile that would lead me to my larger goals and so I started working on things that might not go anywhere (heavy essays) and submitting to places that I felt would promote that kind of career for me.
Since I made that decision it’s been much easier to figure out what to do next because I feel like I have a vision that’s guiding me. I mean, when I think, “Should I spend time on that?” I can refer back to what I want from my career and find an answer. Also because Julia helped me begin a corporate career (and my husband thoughtfully got himself laid off when his company outsourced his job), I have the time and freedom to focus my creative time on things that matter to me instead of crying over queries for articles I don’t want to write.
Of course I’ve also discovered that I really like marketing communications. I really like marketing. And the more I dig into it the more I understand that I wasn’t being true to my “brand” before that conference. No wonder I was so unhappy.
As proof that I’m onto something, creative work has been finding me a lot lately. I think that this is proof that I’m finally on the right track.
When I think about how far I’ve come in a year, I get excited to think that if I make that same sort of progress next year that it’ll be a pretty good year.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:34 am
LOL. I’ve dreamed about bloggers and blogging before as well. Though I must say, your dream was rather amusing. Perhaps I should go get an exercise ball for labor? Hmm?
November 17th, 2007 at 5:55 am
That is all quite wonderful and inspiring to boot. Congratulations on doing what you really want to do. May the next year be even better!