Down The Rabbit Hole - Again!

byMJL71

483 followers

7 years ago

Hi. I know, I know, I've used this metaphor once before, but this time it's even worse! Back when I wrote my original blog, I still had hope!

Okay, it's time I straightened this out, come clean. I haven't given up, or anything like that. I had a nice website going, I even racked up 500 visitors, in one month. My niche was (still is) pulp fiction stories, dealing with crime. According to the bio I wrote up when I joined here, in November 2017, I am a fiction writer.

I've been writing for...oh, heck, I can't tell you how many years! I had a miserable childhood (boo-hoo! - I'm not kidding), but I'm not blaming them, or anyone else. I learned an important lesson, a hard one for me, that you have to own the problem before you can get better. Keep complaining about the terrible things that happened to you and blaming them for where you are today, just keeps you in the place, or more likely you're going to go backwards!

Joining WA is still the most important event in my life, in many ways. I wrote in a blog how I actually learned how to contain my writing within certain limits by authoring and publishing what I wrote immediately. The immediacy of putting myself out there for people to read my stuff and comment, is what drove me to keep writing. The limitations of the author page at Wealthy Affiliate, in terms of space, etc., taught me how to be brief, how to cut out those useless adjectives and adverbs that clutter up a lot of writing. I learned how to write clear.

Well, I maintained my site for a while, but as I became more involved in actual writing, I found I have no time for my site - not until I am ready to publish my stuff in book form, etc., and use social media to connect with my audience. I shut it down, for now. I still have my other site, which I had intended for publishing my stories, but there's nothing on there now, either.

So, what do I do? I wished over and over again that I had developed some other interest during my long life, besides writing. I've held a hundred different jobs and I've been all over the place, but I'm no businessman.

Okay, okay. I know you don't have to be a business-person in the mainstream sort of way. But the thing is, I don't have any other interest about which I know a lot. I know a little about a lot of things! (Someone once sad, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Maybe that's my trouble.

I kind of wish I could wave a magic wand and a new niche would open up in front of me, like a gift from heaven.

Now, that's not going to happen!

Thanks for reading.