I wrote that post here, there, and everywhere. Then I submitted it to a group blog called "Band Back Together" (http://www.bandbacktogether.com)which
has a lot of mental health, recovery, and other survivor type stuff on
it. They accept submissions but then they edit them and choose when to
publish them. So I submitted, and then waited..and then I saw that it
was being reviewed and edited... and now I have a date. It will be
published on November 8th. The editor emailed me with the news and after
some back and forth she said I was a "good writer" and that she didn't
have to edit much. Really what she did is add some formatting for
emphasis, like adding italics and things like that. She said she
could have put it up for publication sooner but it was so good that she
wanted to put it in a PRIME TIME. Oh.... :-)
She got me in the ego. Yup! Loved hearing that. So that was really nice.
The
scales have been smiling for the last couple of weeks too. I dropped a
couple of pounds, and a co-worker complimented me on my weight loss and
my new jeans. Sweet!!
Feeling good about yourself is
not a crime, just in case you ACOAs need a reminder. I am not a selfish
person for feeling good about my accomplishments. I have worked for a
long time, and I have worked hard to lose weight and to be a good
writer. I did not do these things overnight. They have taken effort.
Now I am taking a couple of more steps.
First
of all I have slowly been building a following on Twitter. I am not in a
hurry to build myself but I am determined to do it. Twitter is helping
me to find my voice. It is helping me to figure out what is important to
me and figure out what my opinions are. Like many ACOAs I have not
really felt like I had a voice most of my life. Twitter is really
helping me to define myself. There is a site called Klout, www.klout.com, which identifies how much influence you have, and what topics you seem to know about. I find this very helpful too.
Second, I am joining NaNoWriMo which is just insane. NaNoWriMo is the idea of National Novel Writing Month... somehow I am supposed to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Yeah, right. Wish me luck!
