Blogging Highlights

Written for https://saltedcaramel670.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/blogging-insights-3-0-8-your-backstory/

I started blogging in 2021, when I wanted to promote my book ”It Won’t Happen Again”. I wanted to give other author’s advice, and I did that for a while. I posted snippets of my book. Finding the word prompts changed my posts. I found a group of talented writers, who clearly love writing as much as I do. I would write lots of posts, now I rarely go over three and accept I cannot post every day.

Since my blog started, I wrote a play, ”The Kingswood Beast”. I was commissioned for that play, with an opening night. VR360, a new way of entertainment. I have just had a poem put in an anthology. Yes, I am still working full time, but I have found an enjoyment I didn’t think I would.

Another, Share your World asked, ”Have you ever lied about your age”. Unlike my mum, who was 21 for many years, I am fifty-seven years old. In three years I can retire, take a private pension. Will that stop me working? No, because then I can write full time. I can show my granddaughter, you can be anything you want to be. Don’t give up on your dream.

Would I like to be published one day? Have an agent? Yes, I would. Am I proud of what I have achieved? Yes, because not everyone can write a novel, or a blog. I read some amazing posts.

My daughter designed the colours of my blog, and suggested a name. Writer Ravenclaw.