The Writing Life
I rarely, if ever, post anything about marketing on Write Right. I may provide marketing strategy and content creation services to clients—and I have fun with both—but I don’t often write about the first on this site. I occasionally write about the second, insofar as it relates to the writing life in general. I usually avoid both.
I don’t make resolutions; however, I do make plans. A lot of them. I also accomplish them. I’m naturally gifted that way.
One of the activities I most dreaded as a kid were the awful fundraisers. “Here, kids, take these boxes of candy bars and sell them to your neighbors!” Everything in me recoiled. I wasn’t simply introverted; I was shy.
Some days the words come slow. The brain struggles to develop compelling strategies. On those days, I still do the work. I slog through the fuzzy brain and hope for a day, maybe not tomorrow or even next week, when the words come fast. The brain makes its connections.
I work. Days without anything to fill them aren’t comforting. They cause dread. They stretch on and on and on. Vacuous, empty. A wasteland that can fill with sharp-tongued thoughts and a sense of guilt and failure.
The words “freelancer,” “solopreneur,” and “remote work” can conjure images of people sprawled on couches and beds. Clad in their pajamas, they’re busy at work on laptops and mobile devices. It’s three in the afternoon.
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