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Whether you know it or not, the last six months have represented my active pursuit in establishing how and to what capacity writing will play a part in my professional life. After years in the finance and online education industries and a severe case of corporate burn-out, I took the time to focus on my love for multicultural writing. While this blog is just one fruit from that labor, it is my favorite. When I walked out of those double doors six months ago, I never imagined a multicultural blog would be one of my creations and one of my passions. It just goes to show that writing can manifest itself into something more than articles, books and short stories. Written communication and expression can be released in a variety of ways and while I am finding that I like one or two forms better than the ones I initially set out to involve myself with, much like entrepreneurship, there truly are no limits.

As a writer one of the most important lessons I’ve learned over the past six months is balance. I am notorious for diving into something with laser beam focus to the point of exhaustion. Often this leads to an inability to see how something can transform itself into something bigger and better. As a writer, I enjoy reading about successful people outside of the arts and communication fields in order to learn important life lessons that in turn not only make my life richer but my writing stronger.

For example, on the surface reading about a young entrepreneur’s professional nomadic spirit that led him to create a successful orthotic and prosthetic business then moved on to creating comedy festivals and most recently assisting other entrepreneurs with securing business loans may not seem applicable. However, reading about Jared Metz, who has accomplished all I just described, is very relevant. In reading about Jared Metz, I learned how to be open to a variety of possibilities in my own career. It is forcing me to look at my writing career in a different way. I now look at it as a living breathing entity that changes and moves as I change and move. Reading about successful entrepreneurs like Jared Metz, also teaches writers about the broad spectrum of success. As writers we spend a lot of time striving to be published. Once you’re published, then what? You can do it again and again as many prolific authors tend to do, or you might find that it leads you to something else.

These last six months have taught me while I hope to get published again and again, it may not look like how I intended it or happen the way it did initially—and that’s fine. Sometimes the story is more important than the vehicle in which it is carried throughout the universe.

 

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