Walking the talk

Tomorrow is the first evening of my writing course. The reason that I started this blog was because part of my preparation for this course was to write every day for twenty minutes and I will need to continue to do so during and after the course.

It is one thing to write a blog for twenty minutes a day on topics that are part of my life, interest me or catch my attention for one reason or another. It is an entirely different prospect to write for a living. I should probably clarify that I am not about to make writing my main source of income, which is a good thing because I wouldn't be able to pay the bills for many months to come. However my ability to write really well will enable to me get my message across to my target audience and that is important to me.

I want to be able to write in ways that enables me to reach women over the age of 40 who are experiencing changes in their bodies and emotional states and may not even know that these signs are all linked to the perimenopause. Or that there are some really easy and simple things that they can do to rebalance their body and sooth their irritations and emotions.

I have always enjoyed talking to people which is probably just as well as my first profession was as a nurse and then as a teacher. I have always enjoyed chatting to other women and at times when the children were very young these women were often my life line. We swapped tips on how to remove various stains from our furniture, walls and clothes and how to create great food quickly whilst holding a baby on your hip and assisting a young child with homework. Writing though, for me, has been an entirely different matter.

I attended a secondary school that chose not to teach us how to write properly and believed that teaching grammar was inhibiting. This has caused me problems ever since and I have slowly learned how to improve my writing in my adult years but it still has a long way to go.

Even if my grammar was outstanding there is a skill to writing in a way that captures an audience's attention and holds them for the duration of the piece. Hence the writing course. Thank goodness I have found a course that can help.

This course will be an adventure as it takes us all to new places and experiences with our writing. I am both nervous and excited. Bring it on!

love
Sarah