Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been prolifically writing on here the way I once did. I miss it, but I have another project I’m working on and I’m almost done.
I’m writing my first book! It has been a crazy, intimidating, and pain-staking process but I just finished my first draft. Now, I’m working on “beefing” up my word count.
I only started professionally writing in December of last year but truthfully, this is the only job I’ve had in my 35 years on this earth, that I have ever loved.
People around me are telling me they’ve never seen me so driven: They are impressed.
Not to toot my own horn, I’m impressed with myself.
In 8 months, I have written over one hundred articles for Medium, acquired my first ghostwriting job with a repeat client, and written a rough copy of a self-help book.
I wish I had this kind of confidence in myself earlier in my life. Maybe if I had listened to my high school journalism and English teachers and went to university for journalism, I would be further ahead in my career.
Or maybe it would’ve killed my love of writing, who knows?
My book is a self-help memoir hybrid and I started writing it three weeks ago. I do not have a title picked out yet, but I have 25,000 words written. It’s about postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although 3–5% of women suffer from this debilitating illness, there are no books available that are strictly about PPOCD.
I have medical consultants on board with my project and the support organization “Postpartum Support International” has asked to stock my book in their online bookstore even though it’s not even finished yet.
That was a huge confidence booster, I wrote like a maniac after that conversation!
Pick a Topic You Are Passionate About
Passion is a key element in success. If you are passionate about something, it will carry you through the hardest days: The days when you want to nap instead of write, play instead of write, or the days that you just don’t want to do anything at all.
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