I Almost Quit Writing! But, I Didn’t Need to After All! By William Barton

It was the scariest period of my life. I’d left my job teaching in San Francisco and was writing full-time in the booming tech industry.

It was the scariest period of my life. I’d left my job teaching in San Francisco and was writing full-time in the booming tech industry.

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(My apologies to the men reading this…) 😉 At the age of 35, after 3 successful vaginal births, I was lying on a hospital bed in Bangor, Maine, enormously pregnant with what would be my largest baby, by far. Later, I was squatting on the floor. Then, I was bouncing on a big, red, rubber ball. Then, I was back in the bed. From bed, to squatting, to ball, back and forth, again and again. And, then I was begging for drugs…

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In 2002, a few years into my professional freelancer’s life, I wrote my first Success Story for WritersWeekly.com and that was my light-bulb revelation. I could write articles, short stories, and verses for pay, and also earn an additional income by writing about the writing process!
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According to a study, more than 40% of women with full-time jobs in science leave the field, or switch to part time, after giving birth to their first child. But, does that mean women must lose their financial independence after giving birth? Absolutely not!

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Congratulations to Myrna Lou Goldlbaum for being the first to answer that Angela and the boys were up all night trying to fix the AC on the boat! Based on last week’s issue of WritersWeekly, why were Angela and the boys wandering the streets, meeting strange bloody people at 3:30 a.m.?? Send your answer through the […]

After shutting down my Fiverr gigs, I started a plan into action that led to my dream of writing for high-paying clients.