_xxx_ Published Pieces and Counting!!

Way back when I first started writing with the idea that I really wanted to be a published writer... or a professional writer... or whatever it was that I was thinking at the time... I was really attracted to those writer bios that said "hundreds of articles published... blah, blah, blah." 100 seemed like a magic number. I had this idea that if I could cross the "100 published" line, maybe I'd finally feel like a real writer.

In January 2007, my total count was forty-one. And that number was only arrived at by going back and counting the items I had published in newsletters while working for ORBIS International, which I wasn't completely sure I should count... but I did thinking it would help me get to 100 faster. I did write those articles, even if I wasn't thinking in terms of being a writer at that point. I suppose I could have gone back and counted everything I'd written through four years of high school publications. That might of gotten me there quicker.

Forty-one felt like a very, very small number for all the work and tears that had gone into my writing efforts.

Well this morning, in an excellent act of procrastination, I updated my "published list" and was a bit surprised to find that my number of published pieces (not self-published, but work other people have printed and/or paid me to write for them)... is 190!!!

I'm very, very near to being one of those writers... "hundreds of articles published." Woo-Hoo!