The journey of a new freelance writer

“5 proposals sent” the laptop reads. Okay, I should at least get a response from one of them. I should. Shouldn’t I?

I’m a writer. Yes, I woke up one morning and decided to be a writer. Yes, I can cite my inspirations. Yes, I love reading novels and poems. I love criticizing other people’s work like I’m a pro, I’m a perfectionist too. It all checks out. Yup, I’m a writer baby.

I want to share my gift with this cold, cruel world. To show them the artist, me. Oh how lucky this earth is.

I started a blog about something I’m passionate about. “Femininity”

www.feminineandproud.wordpress.com

It is an amazing experience. but,I’m at a crossroad. Do I want to keep uploading blog posts every second Wednesday or do I want more out of this writing thing?

I love words on paper but damn this is serious work. It is tasking and has stretched my mind in ways unimaginable. They say writers are artists, no, it’s true. This thing, creating a body of work for people to read and hoping to connect with them deep inside, is art.

It’s creativity in a literal way.

I want more out of it…

So my freelance journey started, one week ago precisely. Disappointment left and right but my eyes are trained on the goal, cannot allow myself to be distracted

One week, yes. I signed up on Upwork, Toogit and all the websites google suggested to me.

Hire me, I thought to myself, hire me damn it, I want to show you how great I am at this stuff.

I send proposals to clients who want a creative writer, someone they trust to handle their work, and of course they aren’t going to give it to the first novice writer who sends them a proposal.

Nope. Nothing for me yet. It’s early but you know that feeling you get? You just know in your heart that “we need a different approach baby” yeah, I got that.

So while I send proposals to people in different parts of the world, hoping one of them connects with my work, I will brush up on my skills, take on new challenges and not be a couch potato while at it.

I’m here, on medium, to document my journey as a writer, alongside other life experiences of course.

It’s personal, it’s raw and unfiltered, but it’s me. I know I will enjoy it…