I had always wanted to write a blog. For years I attempted and every single time I failed. At first it was mom blogging that I wanted to do… thought I wanted to do. But I’m not that kind of mother. I also had no idea what my niche is.
Finding your niche is difficult when you are unsure of yourself. I spent my adulthood working through depression, discovering things about myself that were both good and bad, and raising my child. Despite feeling like I had been drowning for so long, there were two things that were always something I went back to: reading and writing.
They were the one thing I could find solace in. Even while I spent a lot of time playing MMO’s, I was still writing. Roleplay is still writing. It’s one of my favorite hobbies and I have some amazing stories I’m writing with my partners.
This past September I was laid off from my job. A place I had thought I’d be at… well, forever. I was just about to hit 8 years when I got the notice that myself, and many many others, were being laid off. It came as a shock. It was the most surreal moment I had in a long time. What was I supposed to do? I can’t not have a job!
Because I had been there so long, the rest of the year was still stable because of my severance. It forced me to start taking care of myself; physically, mentally, and emotionally. It also made me think more about what I wanted to do.
See, the field I was working in was replaced by AI at my former workplace. There were positions of the same open elsewhere and it became very competitive but then, if one job can lay me off to use AI, another one can too, right? Why stay in a field where I can lost my position again at some point?
My son is a year from being a legal adult and still has two more years until graduation. If there’s any time in my life to choose the path I want to take in life, now was it. That is what brings me here now. I love to write. I love to read. I want to explore, expand, grow as a writer into an author and more.
There will be plenty of challenges. I am an introverted person who, while not shy, does not care to leave my house. Working from home for six years didn’t exactly help that any, honestly, but I have to start somewhere.
Welcome to my little part of the internet. Where I continue working on my writing craft and start exploring the world beyond my own imagination. I’ll blog, post short stories, update on a novel I have started writing. I am looking forward to doing this. Any advice is always welcome and I look forward to meeting other writers.
Next week, I hope I can show you a short story I am working on!
Sage Barlowe 