To them, I had thrown away a $50,000 education to pursue a pipe dream.Īnd on some level, I think, I did too.
My family didn’t speak to me for almost four years. I slept on the floor because I didn’t own a bed. The next year? I hoped I could scrape together enough loose change to afford a box of crackers, because I’d paid rent and didn’t have any money left for food. One year I was buying designer clothes and traveling the world. And I can laugh now, but those were some dark times. I know that when I first made the decision to become a writer almost a decade ago I met with massive resistance from friends and family who could not understand why I would walk away from a lucrative career in sales to be…a writer? I am sure they had shared visions of me wearing a beret and hemp sandals, chain-smoking and writing bad poetry in front of Starbucks. If all goes well, we are eager to jump in and shout, “That was me! My idea!” But what about when we are facing the unknown? When we cannot count on things turning out rosy? When we put our name on something, we claim it for good and for bad. Or maybe it is because we are afraid to fail. Why? Because we are creative souls who feel too confined to tweet using the name of our human self who happens to be trapped in a boring plane of existence? One of the largest stumbling blocks for writers is, of all things, using their name. If you haven’t read this blog, I highly recommend it. A few weeks ago we discussed what it meant to be a brand. One of the largest reasons many authors fail is fear. The tough part is what you must face before you ever sign up for a FB account. In this book, I give you a blueprint for a solid platform that is easy to maintain and grow and help you form a brand.
At the end of this month (Lord willing) Who Dares Wins Publishing will be releasing my book, We Are Not Alone-The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. The interesting thing about fear is that it can be so subtle we don’t even realize how much it has permeated our lives. Ah the four-letter word that has the power to kill all of your dreams, the proverbial “Oogie Boogie Man” to all writers.
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