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!
4 comments:
You go, girl! Yay. You've chased the job leads, spent long hours at the keyboard and all the hard work has paid off.
Only 10 away from "hundreds of articles published."
Good job!
Your Autograph Please!
BRAVO!!!!
Hey,
Congratulations! That number is nothing to sneeze at!
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Suzanne Lieurance
The Working Writer's Coach
http://www.workingwriterscoach.com
"When Your Pen Won't Budge, Read The Morning Nudge"
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