First Time

Hi! My very first blog post. I intended to start a blog, oh, about six years ago when I was burned out at work and imagined solace lie in the ability to type words into the ether and find my tribe. I spent hours designing a WordPress blog, fiddling with pictures and bios and perfecting drafts, and was too scared to ever make it public. It wasn’t perfect.

Now, on the other side of the pandemic and a million other life changes, I am finally ready to let it rip. To officially pivot and follow my dream of becoming a novelist. To start a blog (finally!) To try my hardest and see what happens.

I am finally posting this bad boy due to the super funny Allison K. Williams and Jane Friedman and their brilliant Writer Mind Marketing Mind webinar. I attended the live webinar this month (the link above is to a recording you can purchase), and it was absolutely excellent, full of wisdom, good humor, and motivation. It kicked my butt into gear, particularly the wisdom that writing blogs IS STILL WRITING! You can blend your writing and marketing into a beautiful rainbows!

I needed to hear that as I have been obsessed with spending all my “writing time” revising my novel. The idea of drafting a blog post or newsletter overwhelmed me but now, as I dash this off, it really does seem to be the perfect antidote to laboring over a single sentence for hours then ultimately deleting it (I had no idea creative writing was so hard and magical and overwhelming and wonderful).

I am also listening to Austin Kleon’s wonderful book Show Your Work during a recent long commute, and it inspired me to just do it. To try to find my tribe of fellow writers and readers who like the things I like (writing, reading widely across genres, creativity, sparkly things, finding joy, optimizing work and wellness and what that even means, supporting bad ass women, and cherishing the little things like puppy kisses and when my eight year old nephew allows me to PUBLICLY hold his hand for the very briefest moment in time).

And so, if you happen to find this blog out there on the internets, thank you so very much. I hope you too recently found motivation to start or restart or complete a long-delayed creative project. We can do this.

xoxo

Sara