International Women’s Day
In the past I have written a couple of blogs. I have since deleted these. I have always been a writer but I prefer my work to be published hard copy and there are several reasons for this.
I may be young (ish), I’m turning thirty this year but I grew up without the internet. Aside from writing my other passion has always been photography. With the expansion of the internet and everything going digital I found my passions and talents were eroded, extinct. Everyone is now a writer. Everyone is now a photographer. Point and click. Opinion and click.
The backlash of posting anything can be horrific, life threatening. Trolls are merciless. I prefer my work to be published in magazines and newspapers, at least once removed from these people who insult you and your credibility from behind their i-screens.
But I am faced with a dilemma. In order to get my work ‘out there’ I have to put myself ‘out there’. This is scary. As I said, I have always been a writer. In order to add some credibility to that statement I became a qualified journalist in 2014. My degree previous to that was in film, photography, art and women’s studies. I am educated and trained and yet feel weak in the face of internet trolls.
Today is International Women’s Day. On this day I am putting myself ‘out there’, honestly, with no pretentions. From today I will upload my published work and blog about being a freelance writer in today’s world. I aim to write short segments of a fiction novel I am working on.
This blog is for me. An experiment, but also an experience.
I am woman. Hear me ROAR.
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