You already are.
If you come to a dashboard, click ‘Add New,’ write until your story’s done, and then push ‘Publish.’ You’ve done it. You are a published author.
Don’t believe me? It’s hard to think of your own little online space as a single volume waiting on the shelf at your local bookstore. It’s true.
Last year at Relevant, I sat at a table with Andrea Doering, an editor from Revell Books, and a couple of other bloggers. She asked us questions about blogging and particularly what we hoped to gain from blogging. A couple of us mentioned we hoped to be published authors. Her response?
We already are published. At least that’s how the publishing world sees us. She challenged us to think of what we’d have to gain from a traditionally published book that we don’t have as bloggers.
What do you think of that?
It changed how I approached my blog, writing, and how I think of myself as a writer.
Do you treat your blog and your writing as a professional author? Do you see yourself as an author? Do you take care of your little place on the world wide web as you would a professional website, book tour, or speaking gig?
Think about it.
If you stopped seeing yourself as a wanna-be writer and started seeing yourself as a writer, how would your writing, your online presence, and you change?
Let me know…I’d love to hear.
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Emily wrote on this yesterday at Chatting at the Sky. I’d encourage you to read it. I love this, “If you have a blog, my suggestion to you is to treat it with respect and make it the best art you have.” Yes. THAT.
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I love this, “If you stopped seeing yourself as a wanna-be writer and started seeing yourself as a writer, how would your writing, your online presence, and you change?”
It is so true! I need to change my train of thought and perspective.
I am a published writer! I am a writer!
I teach kindergarten.
5 yr olds know that they are authors; they are confident, creative without hesitation, they show pride in their work…and they believe in themselves.
We can learn a lot from 5yr olds.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
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This is such a great topic Jess. I have loved this series. So often we strive to be authors, to get published and yet we don’t realize that we already are. Our words are already being read by others and sometimes even impacting them. Thank you for this reminder.
This is an interesting topic because I do have a blog I try to write in at least two to three times a week. A few months ago the idea came to me after a bit of research to publish my blog into a book for my husband and children who are adults now. Blog to print is a program that does just that like kodak picture books only it is words and pictures together. My first book came in the mail and I looked it over made a few changes and ordered a new one. Gave the second copy to my counselor as a gift and he said, “So do you believe you can write now, that you are an author?” my answer was “NO”. Why? Because it wasn’t official, a book by a publishing team etc. In reality as the Lord is slowly showing me I AM A WRITER and it doesn’t matter if it is for the masses or for two. As Ann Voskamp has said. “you write for God and that is all that matters”.
Lord help my unbelief and help me to know the gift of writing is from you and you alone. For His Glory only.
So thankful to have read this blog this evening. Although you wrote it back in August, the words are speaking…:) I needed this encouragement today. Would have loved to come to relevant but I just found out about it and saw that it was sold out. Maybe next year. Enjoy your time. Please share what you learn!