I’m not kidding.
After spending more years than I would care to admit wanting to run from my home, my family runs like a well oiled machine right now. Plus with working my bootie off subbing and then trying to mash in writing and family, I feel like God has swooped in and plopped me into a much needed rest for my soul.
Don’t get me wrong – I know how serious this virus is. I don’t wish it upon anybody. And I certainly don’t feel happy that I have rest while this virus wrecking so much havoc on people emotionally, physically and mentally. But the negatives don’t nullify my positives. I am just in a good season right now, and I am comfortable enough with myself to say that out loud.
On a different note, I’m not making my life’s fortune on Medium yet, so who knows if I’ll be subbing next year still or not. But I’m thrilled that my freelance side gigs have picked up a bit and that I am moving steadily toward a niche market with it writing memoirs and helping people write their books. Stay tuned for more of that and a link to subscribe to my newsletter!
In closing, my daughter and I took a very safe social distancing car ride to the beach yesterday. The mountains were so green. And while there was definitely evidence of the Malibu fires there, thanks to dark charred sticks of trees shooting up through the canyon, wild flowers were dancing like crazy. Yellow mustard seeds and purple lupines. It was like being in nature’s candy store. As we snacked on pretzles and M and M’s (here’s to the Corona 15!) my daughter narrated the story of Hadestown in between singing some of the lyrics.
We eventually made it to the beach and ambled our way up a deserted lifeguard tower. As we watched the parasailors glide and duck above the waves – fifty feet ahead of us – she leaned into me and sang me a few lyrics from her musical audition song, Stay (which, ironically, is not that different than the Corona virus! The song was not from Hadestown but from an older show, Amelie)
Stay where you are
Don’t come too close, and don’t go too far
I’ll make you count to 100 so I have a good chance to hide
Don’t expect me to play fair
Move in, I move even deeper inside
I like you right there
I like you right there
Stay
Thanks for Your “Stay” At My Blog!
I have said this before and I will say it again. I will always try new places to write. I do want to make more money in this field and I have zero problems learning how to market myself. But in the end, my relationships with people in my life, as well as some steady readers here at WordPress (you know who you are) are so much important than some flash in the pan success at Medium. (Um, I have made $3.47, despite being curated in five publications there!)
I am grateful to everyone who reads here and has followed me from the beginning. As Belladonna says, you could have chosen any blog to read, but you chose this one. Thank you!
Until next time,
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I feel the exact same! I am getting so much accomplished and I love it.
HI Ash, glad you are enjoying it. It’s good to know I’m not alone in not freaking out.
Have you noticed an uptick at Medium? I’ve noticed on on wordpress but mostly on my Pandemic posts, so it might just be that I’ve written a lot on topics people want to read right now.
Hey, I have gone from making 33 cents to making 3.73 this month. My Covid posts were not read at all, but I think it’s because I wrote about the upside of staying home where people were more interested in heavy duty stat posts.I also realized that although 4 of my articles were picked up by pubs within Medium, each pub only had 1200 followers. The real ticket to bigger money is to be picked up by pubs that have 100k followers. I just wrote one today and am sending them the draft (not the published piece) so I hope it gets picked up. I struggle with wanting to make money there, but also finding it to be a crap content mill where my time could be better spent writing here, working full time (or freelancing full time) and writing my next book. Mostly, tho, I’m attempting to be proud of myself for really trying. I have not stopped and will continue to pursue Medium for 2 more months. If nothing hits substantial, I’ll have more evidence to move forward in another area of my life. (Whooo! Long comment.)
I am always at home due to disability but because of this virus I have found new ways to spend my time and also ideas to make money. It really does change up the way the world works.
Yes, a perspective switch is huge thanks to this virus! Glad you are making the most of it.