I’m a self-confessed introvert, but I’m also a busy, busy, busy person. I work full-time and sometimes full-time, I work at home, I have several jobs I have to maintain, and I have other things I have to do everyday. I’m the wife of a doctor, and I have two young, adorable children.
I am a wife, a mom, a professional who works, and I work full-time. I have a life that revolves around me. I’ve been to college, and I’ve gotten my masters degree in business. I’ve been working for 14 years and I’ve been working nonstop for the past 13 of those. I’m very productive, and my husband and I have a wonderful life together.
I’m really a writer and a photographer. I’m currently working on a book that I’m very excited to share with you today. I recently began writing, and I’ve had a few of my other friends share a short story with the world. I’ve been writing for seven years and I’ve had a few of them on my blog at least once.
In her book, “the first rule of business,” Patricia Stevens writes, “Don’t do the stuff people do.” When I was with my husband, we were traveling on a business trip and I was getting ready to leave the hotel. I was on the phone with a customer who was really excited about the next day.
When you’re writing, you’re not thinking about how others are going to think of your story. You’re thinking about how you’re going to make your story good. That is, you’re thinking about what the reader, the reader’s friend, the reader’s reader, will be able to expect to read.
I think that’s one of the best parts of writing. The more you get right about what you want to say, the better your writing is going to be. Also, if you give yourself enough time to really think it through, youre going to learn a lot about your craft.
I love it when I hear writers talk about the importance of thinking through their ideas before they publish them. The more you get right about what you want to write, the better you will write. This is especially true in the writing world. If you do not understand the impact your words will have on your readers, you will not be able to write the kind of stories that will get you published, and you will not be able to do your best work.
Patricia Steves is a writer herself, a member of the New York Times, and one of our own. Her new book, The Life of Patrician, chronicles the life of a woman who is raised to be a writer, but then, as she says, “died of cancer.” Patrician, now 74, decided to write about her experience so she could share her story in a way that the reader could understand her.
Steves’ story will be told in the form of a novel, and she admits she’s “very much afraid that she, and the book, will be remembered only in the context of a movie.” I suspect the movie version will center on how she was forced to leave her job, and the book will focus on what she had to endure to find her way back to writing.
I’ll admit that, at first, I was dubious about the book’s existence. I’m not a book person, but I’m also not a huge movie fan. The idea of Patrician attempting to commit suicide seemed unrealistic, and that’s why I was a little hesitant to read it. It was like taking a knife to a gunfight, where you had to decide whether or not your opponent was a legitimate threat to your life.