I sit in my favorite recliner, laptop propped just right,
staring at a blank Word document. Many ideas running through my head but none
seem to be right for this particular writing prompt. I just checked my stats
and they are really low from yesterday and today. I’m thinking I need to come
up with something fantastic.
Unfortunately I just don’t have anything fantastic today.
Less than a year ago I would never have been thinking about
such things. I wasn’t even familiar with the concept of blogging. My life was
rather simple but I needed to find a part time job and I wanted to do it from
home. My sister-in-law told me about an online company she freelanced for doing
various jobs so I signed up.
I looked at the different areas of online work available and
found the only one I was interested in was freelance writing. Why, I don’t
know. Up to that point the only published writing I had done was a few poems
placed in the county paper by my elementary teacher when I was eight years old.
My writing experience as an adult was limited to weekly
Bible studies I wrote for the women’s classes I taught. But I put a bid on one freelance job that felt right.
Remember I have no clue what I’m doing here. Can you believe that the job I bid
on had already invited me to bid on it before I bid on it?! Does that make
sense? It boils down to this, I got a freelance writing job contributing to an
online women’s magazine once a week. Immediately it turned into a weekly column
called Moore On Life. Not that I’m that good but I believe things happen for a
purpose to lead us down the path for which we are intended. This was the
beginning of my new journey.
My next job was writing a biography for an Italian family. I
interviewed a couple who lived through the Depression and World War 2. It was
written as a children’s book so their grandchildren would always know their
family heritage. Amazing story and it created in me a love for American history
that I’ve never had before.
There were other jobs from this online source but once I
began blogging it consumed my time. I have spent hundreds of hours researching the
internet trying to discover how to build a successful blog. I’ve read tons of
blogs over the last months getting to know bloggers. My husband does not know
what has happened to me because I am a computer junkie now. It takes a lot of
time but I so love it.
I write all this to say my life has been changed since I
entered this world of internet and blogging. I am learning to balance my time,
make friends, and how to be myself to the world. Accepting that what I have to
say doesn’t matter to most people has been hard at times. However if I have the
chance to influence a few people that should be enough right? I truly want that
to be enough for me.
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