For years, I've felt business pulling me right and literature pulling me left. I tell myself it was because I was a single mom with hungry mouths to feed that I let business win the battle. But now my kids are off to college and I'm ready to let literature have its place. Yes, I still have to put food in my own mouth and my husband's, so I'll keep writing for business--a profession that has blessed me with both freedom and worry. But I'm also going to find a way to write poetry and short stories again. I'm counting on the hope that years in business have made me a better writer overall.
Do you have a similar story...similar pulls on your muse and your time? Join this group and let's share ideas, encouragements and resources to help us make our writing dreams a reality.



I am coming to this world. Fiction is my great love and my main focus, but more and more I realize that if I want to make writing my career, I'm going to have to put more valuable time and energy into non-fiction. It's the call of that elusive freedom (and worry) that is jamming the compromise down my throat. I'll let you know how it goes.
Erin Moxam07:37 AM CST