Comments on: Career and the Direction of Life http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Reinspire Your Muse By Stopping To Smell The Roses » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html#comment-13624 Reinspire Your Muse By Stopping To Smell The Roses » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:02:48 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/?p=962#comment-13624 [...] into place; centered, strong, and balanced; you’ll begin to feel more and more encouraged in your writing goals. And the more encouraged you are, the more inspired you’ll [...] [...] into place; centered, strong, and balanced; you’ll begin to feel more and more encouraged in your writing goals. And the more encouraged you are, the more inspired you’ll [...]

]]> By: Melissa Donovan http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html#comment-3628 Melissa Donovan Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:50:27 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/?p=962#comment-3628 Oh yes, my blog Writing Forward was becoming stale for me late last year. When I sat down to ask myself why, I realized that it was too vast. I wanted to narrow the focus - I mean writing is an enormous field to capture on one site (for one person). Since I freelance and have a blog about doing business online, I decided to focus Writing Forward on creative writing - fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Since the moment I made that decision, my interest in the blog has been refueled and still going strong ;) Oh yes, my blog Writing Forward was becoming stale for me late last year. When I sat down to ask myself why, I realized that it was too vast. I wanted to narrow the focus – I mean writing is an enormous field to capture on one site (for one person). Since I freelance and have a blog about doing business online, I decided to focus Writing Forward on creative writing – fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Since the moment I made that decision, my interest in the blog has been refueled and still going strong ;)

]]> By: Joan Kremer http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html#comment-3578 Joan Kremer Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:05:35 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/?p=962#comment-3578 Wow, Becca! Great post -- excellent questions. I need to sit down with them and really think them through, but on first glance, I'm amazed at how much my answers line up with yours. It's particularly interesting to meet another writer who loves to do Web site design and development! Maybe it <i>is</i> the instant gratification that makes it so appealing -- something that doesn't come regularly in a writing career! Anyway, thanks for posting this -- and for alerting us on Plurk! Joan Wow, Becca! Great post — excellent questions. I need to sit down with them and really think them through, but on first glance, I’m amazed at how much my answers line up with yours. It’s particularly interesting to meet another writer who loves to do Web site design and development! Maybe it is the instant gratification that makes it so appealing — something that doesn’t come regularly in a writing career!

Anyway, thanks for posting this — and for alerting us on Plurk!

Joan

]]> By: Shelley (aka Soulcreates) http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html#comment-3564 Shelley (aka Soulcreates) Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:50:01 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/?p=962#comment-3564 I know very well how fear can be paralysing and for a long time I thought it was out of fear of failure but subconsciously it is a fear of success. I reckon there is an element of that for you too... do you visualise seeing your book complete and on the book shelves or do you just visualise the hurdles along the way. Focus on the destination and not the path and be ready with a bit of flexibility to steer around those obstacles that may pop up, don't just sit there at the stop sign waiting the blockage to clear... make a u-turn and use a side road... ok you will have a few dead ends and a few u-turns ... but the scenery will be better as the road is new to you. If it is all dead ends get the bulldozer out and make your own path... there is always a way we just have to open our eyes to it. I know very well how fear can be paralysing and for a long time I thought it was out of fear of failure but subconsciously it is a fear of success. I reckon there is an element of that for you too… do you visualise seeing your book complete and on the book shelves or do you just visualise the hurdles along the way.

Focus on the destination and not the path and be ready with a bit of flexibility to steer around those obstacles that may pop up, don’t just sit there at the stop sign waiting the blockage to clear… make a u-turn and use a side road… ok you will have a few dead ends and a few u-turns … but the scenery will be better as the road is new to you. If it is all dead ends get the bulldozer out and make your own path… there is always a way we just have to open our eyes to it.

]]> By: laffarsmith (laffarsmith) http://www.writersroundabout.com/2009/02/career-direction-life.html#comment-3563 laffarsmith (laffarsmith) Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:24:30 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/?p=962#comment-3563 [shares] from WRA: http://tinyurl.com/dzoryy (Career and the Direction of Life) Ask Yourself Powerful Questions! [shares] from WRA: http://tinyurl.com/dzoryy (Career and the Direction of Life) Ask Yourself Powerful Questions!

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