What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take —
but haven’t been able to? What would have to happen to make you comfortable
taking it?
Biggest risk
I’d like to take, but can’t…to quit my full time job and be able to stay home
and try to make a go of a writing career.
What would have to happen for me to take it…well, for one, I’d have to
have some other steady source of income to make up for the lose of the one from
my full time job (or come into a lot of money or win the lottery). Also, I’d have to have a little more
reassurance in the marketability of my writing and more education about the
writing world and how to make it work for me instead of me for it.
I know I
need to do things like reach out to the local libraries and local bookshops to
see about sharing and selling the children’s books I have already published,
and I need to be putting myself out there more in social media, etc…but alas,
with a full time job, full time dog and kid responsibilities, sleeping, eating,
and cleaning up myself and the house, doing laundry and dishes, etc…I haven’t
figured out how to fit in marketing my work.
I’d love to teach writing workshops to children and/or go into
elementary school classrooms and help them write and publish their own class
books like I did with the 5th grade Marshallese students on Ebeye. I
know that I would need to write a grant for something like this, and I’ve
written and received grant money for a project on the island before. The grant
was for training local workers in basic workplace and English skills. That was
fairly simple for me because I knew everyone and all the ins and out of the
base and the Marshallese employees I would be working with later on. But here,
in our new hometown in WA, I don’t have the foggiest idea who, what where,
when, and how to start this project. So,
for the time being, the risk will remain untaken. Maybe someday I’ll be able to fit in some
research and marketing time, but for now, it’s just a little mustard seed sized
idea in my head. J
2 comments:
Go to the reference desk at your local public library. Tell the reference librarian what you need and they will help you get it! Don't be shy, they love stuff like this.
Thanks! What a great idea. I love libraries anyway, so this gives me a good excuse to go! I'll do that. Thanks for the tip. :-)
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