Do you ever think back to when you started something important in your life?
Maybe it’s the day you got married or the day your child was born. We’ve all had important moments like this in our lives, and it can be a nice walk down memory lane to think back to when we get started.
Along those same lines, as I was recording a new episode of The Online Writer podcast, I thought back to how I got started writing in the first place.
It got me thinking about where other people got their start in the world of writing online.
I’d love to hear where you first started putting your words out there into the digital world and what made you decide to take that leap!
It all depends on what you mean by 'started'. I cannot really remember when I first started publishing things, but since I've stopped every blog I've written eventually and no traces remain of my writing, it's doubtful whether I really ever started at all. I think that you can only talk about 'starting' looking back at something you put your energy into continuously for a long time. I may talk that way about my marriage, our children, our pets, cycling, choir singing, language learning, reading literature - but writing and publishing online, sadly not yet. It is my biggest goal this year to get into the groove of writing and publishing regularly.
First started years & years ago but never had the confidence to continue and share my work until I started a pseudonymous account on Twitter in 2020 and that has grown into some opportunities that I am incredibly grateful for.