Challenging Myself to Write More

I decided to present myself with a writing challenge this week.

Over seven years ago, I took a New Year’s Action (rather than a flimsy, easily neglected resolution, I went for a more specific action) and began to blog once a week. I created a topic, and I stuck to it, and that was my weekly blog. A year and a half later, I added another weekly post. In time, another. So for more than seven years, I have been blogging anywhere from one to three times a week.

Then I discovered Medium. Blogs as far as the eye can see, on topics over a wide, wide range. This is an amazing place, and I found that my work fit in here. But more than that, the potential presented by Medium opened me up to more as well.

I have been a writer for most of my life. I finished my first sci-fi story at the age of nine (it was fifty pages, illustrated, and perhaps a tad…off, coming from a nine-year-old). However, for long periods of time I denied that writing was my passion, both of and for myself.

But I am a writer. I have had two short stories published in two anthologies, and I have self-published several books as well. Blogging two to three times a week over the years has made me open myself up to this being who I am.

Writing, however, is not where I earn my living just yet. I can think of several reasons why this…