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A New Journey As A Writer

Feb 28th, 2008

by Marsha Maung

This is something new to me. As you can see, I don’t usually write stuff like these….I write about writing but never, not always, about being a writer. Not on such a personal note, anyway. But today, it’s like a light came on and I suddenly see something….could be the yoga that I was doing but I want to give credit to my piano-playing as well. :-D Anyway, I’ve come a long way as a writer and I think I am standing here, as an established on, trying to say that I am changing the game.

I think I’ve reached a noteworthy stage in my writing career. Things have slowed down a bit in the past two months that we’ve crept past 2008 celebrations. After the confetti have been swept away, wine bottles thrown or recycled (highly recommend recycling, though), my clients have started scrunching down the numbers in their accounts. Some of them drew lines and cancelled out projects – which works well for me. I don’t have as many articles to write anymore and there are less emails too. Sounds like bad news? Nah….I needed the break. BADLY. I needed the break so badly that I had to take a pill….literally. I had to be on muscle-relaxant pills and stuff like that which are stuff I considered junk. Stress got to me.

I never knew working as a freelancer could do that to me. I thought I had the flexibility of time and that I could determine when I was going to write, and as a freelancer nobody was my boss and that if I didn’t want to write, I could tell my clients to fly a kite! But the strange thing is this, I am my own boss now and I think I am a hard-ass boss….harder on myself that I gave myself credit for. The line between my freelance writing career and home/family blurred because I allowed it to blur. I let things become ONE when they should have been separate. I think it’s been an amazingly eye-opening journey, although the doctor’s bill went up, so did my knowledge about life and love.

Life….I neglected myself and let my freelance writing career took the wheel while myself, my family and my home took a backseat. In fact, I think I kicked family life out the door! But they’re back in now. For good!

This does not mean that I am no longer going to write articles for my clients and that this is the end of my freelance writing career but to the contrary, this is the start of a new journey. I feel the ‘me’ in me now and I want to pursue something a little bit more ‘me’. I have been writing for a long time now and I feel like it’s a drag (never used to) because it was always something important to someone else. But now, I want to spend some time writing (I love to write and would not think of doing anything else for a living….apart from singing) stuff I love. Stuff that mean a lot to me. Stuff that I want to express and create.

Fictional writing is important to me now because it expands my mind and my creative energy. Writing is all about creativity but because my freelance writing has taken me too deep into a forest of other people’s demands that writing is no longer creative to me now. Instead, writing has become a chore and also a demand. A demand that sometimes I cannot fulfill. Now, I am going to embark on another journey and that journey is not going to be a jungle where there are wild animals out to rip my hands or head off. Instead, this journey as a writer is going to take me into a world….a paradise where I can be who I want to be, write what I want to write and finally enjoy the writing process.

My dreams of being a writer, perhaps an author soon, is going to be realized and that excites. In the pipeline, I have a chic lit I think I want to publish through either lulu.com or createspace.com. You should check them out if you want to, it’s one of the most popular self-publishing sites on the Internet today. I also want to publish self-help books for work at home mothers. This is my forte…for now. This could be just a phase that I am going through as a writer but it’s a phase that I WANT to enjoy.

The little girl in me, the little girl some thirty odd years back is cheering now because that childhood passion of writing for a living and having fun at the same time might come true.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Maung is an established freelance writer with two kids to feed. She's based in Selangor, Malaysia and have written so many articles in the past about many topics. After freelancing for more than eight years and counting, she is finally re-constructing her life as a person, a mother, a writer and a business person. Considered a creative person with a happy-go-lucky personality and a go-getter spirit, she has earned herself as a kick-ass SEO articles writer, blog content developer and right now, she's happy that her life's path is finally changing. For more articles from Marsha and from others she thinks is worthy of publication, visit http://www.marshamaung.com. For the life and times of a freelance writer and mother (and wannabe travel buff), visit her blog at http://marshamaung.blogspot.com