Writer
Today I am grateful for friends I can confide in. I am grateful for what wonderful ways writing has helped me.
I am a WRITER. I have been a writer since before I was a teen. It is only more recently that I have become a published and paid writer, with a monthly column called "Gratitude Flow" in our local newspaper for two years now. I get paid $30 a column. Prior to that, I had three op-ed pieces on the "Opinion Exchange" in the Minneapolis Star Tribune over a couple of years, and they each paid $100 apiece. (They stopped paying the $100 now, so my 4th piece was unpaid, but I am still so grateful it went in. The payment was just a bonus really.) I am not raking it in, but I am indeed paid and published.
I am also proud of the guest blog posts I have written for "Pink Ribbon Blues" and "Nancy's Point." Of course, the blogosphere makes it possible for anyone with access to the Internet to self-publish, but to have someone else feel my writing is worthy of their blog space means a lot.
Regardless of whether or not I have ever been published or paid, I would still be a writer. I started as a poet and have well over 1500 of them in various notebooks, binders, and cloth-covered journals. I write about gratitude in several ways and I am currently on gratitude journal #11 after beginning with #1 twenty years ago next month. I have kept a journal/diary of my life since I was in high school. I have been writing in a journal to my son since before I became pregnant with him.
I have developed more into an essay writer in recent years. One of the "cancer as catalyst" things that happened to me is that I found a voice that had more to say than a poem could capture. I still write poems and always will. But the once-emerging essayist is fully emerged and fully inspired to keep writing in essays. I have over 900 short essays right here on this blog.
I am committed to writing and also eternally grateful to it. It saved my life in painful times, helping me purge toxic emotions. It gives me focus and purpose today. Onward!
I am a WRITER. I have been a writer since before I was a teen. It is only more recently that I have become a published and paid writer, with a monthly column called "Gratitude Flow" in our local newspaper for two years now. I get paid $30 a column. Prior to that, I had three op-ed pieces on the "Opinion Exchange" in the Minneapolis Star Tribune over a couple of years, and they each paid $100 apiece. (They stopped paying the $100 now, so my 4th piece was unpaid, but I am still so grateful it went in. The payment was just a bonus really.) I am not raking it in, but I am indeed paid and published.
I am also proud of the guest blog posts I have written for "Pink Ribbon Blues" and "Nancy's Point." Of course, the blogosphere makes it possible for anyone with access to the Internet to self-publish, but to have someone else feel my writing is worthy of their blog space means a lot.
Regardless of whether or not I have ever been published or paid, I would still be a writer. I started as a poet and have well over 1500 of them in various notebooks, binders, and cloth-covered journals. I write about gratitude in several ways and I am currently on gratitude journal #11 after beginning with #1 twenty years ago next month. I have kept a journal/diary of my life since I was in high school. I have been writing in a journal to my son since before I became pregnant with him.
I have developed more into an essay writer in recent years. One of the "cancer as catalyst" things that happened to me is that I found a voice that had more to say than a poem could capture. I still write poems and always will. But the once-emerging essayist is fully emerged and fully inspired to keep writing in essays. I have over 900 short essays right here on this blog.
I am committed to writing and also eternally grateful to it. It saved my life in painful times, helping me purge toxic emotions. It gives me focus and purpose today. Onward!
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