I love writing. I am actually not bad at it either. I was going to apply for a job writing columns for a daily art blog, because I thought that it would be the best of both worlds. But it turns out that they wanted columnists for specific topics only, and that I needed to turn out a large number of columns monthly (at least 9). Now, I have to admit that my attention span is pretty short, and the idea of writing 9 columns a month on the environment and art, or art techniques, forever, well it leaves me a little cold. I am not interested in reading 9 columns a month about those things, why would I be interested in writing them? Also, 9 columns a month is lot of time that I wouldn't be spending making art, which is my over-riding passion these days.
That being said, I was really excited about writing on a regular basis again. I love writing my blog, and I love writing other things. Writing isn't always easy for me. Sometimes I find it physically difficult to sit down and write. Sometimes I find that the demands of my day job (aka being mom) are such that I can't write as much as I would like. But I do like to write and I would like to write other things that are more challenging than baring my soul, and my personal life in this blog. You know, I'm not a bad writer, I've received honourable mentions in three writing contests.
I think this is something that I would like to do again.
So when I stumbled upon Squidoo this week I thought, now this is something I could do. It's not a column, I can write about the topics I want, when I want to write them. It's not a blockbuster money maker either. But, it is a wider audience, that is as diversified in it's interests as I am.
So, I'm going to start creating lenses on Squidoo. I actually worked very hard on making one today, that is a demonstration painting of a technique I like to use. I would really love it if you went to have a look, and even more so if you would give it a rating.
If I make more, I'll link them up here so you can have a look.
In the meantime it's back to the pendants that are flying off the shelf at Artfire. My second job!