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Life of a Writer Mom Column Outgrowing Shoes by Carla Charter Last month I wrote about making progress. Progress is great but it can sometimes require painful decisions. For the past 12 years, I have been a freelance reporter, taking on local article writing whenever it came up. That, after all, was how I supplemented my fiction writing. Slowly but surely though, my fiction writing has expanded over the years as well. Growing to the point, where I feel like I'm climbing two different ladders at the same time. It has slowly occurred to me I've reached yet another crossroads in my writing life. I have to decide which to pursue, which one of the two paths is my true passion. Before I even have time to consider this choice, my heart responds "fiction writing." I reluctantly admit to myself that local journalism has felt more and more to me like a pair of shoes I was slowly outgrowing. A favorite pair, that I wanted to hang on to but knowing instinctively that my writing was meant to take me to other places. I'll still keep my columns, this one included, and write a monthly article for a local paper that I've been writing forever. Maybe I'll try my hand at a nonfiction book sometime. My current main focus though will be my fiction. Decisions like this can be scary as well. Leaving dependable incomes to chase a dream. What if it doesn't work out? What if I get major writer's block and can't get around it? Always though I know I have to follow where my passion leads. As I step off in one pair of shoes, I take the other pair with me, even if I will no longer wear them. For they hold precious memories of years of meeting late night deadlines, covering meetings and making friends of a lifetime. I take the first step down this new path, scared and excited too. Wondering where these new shoes and this new journey will take me. Carla Charter is mom to Samantha (12), Halden (5), and Mathew (4). In addition to being a mom, Carla is a freelance writer specializing in newspaper and magazine journalism. Among her publication credits are Woman's World, American Indian Report and New England Business Journal. Online she has been published in Scubasource.com and Military.com. She teaches creative writing courses at Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Ma. Recently her novel Across Lots has been serialized at http://www.newenglandwow.com. She may be reached at cjfreelancewriter@earthlink.net. |
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