As many of you know, a huge chunk of my career (before walking away from it) involved writing: ghost writing for executives; writing romance copy for newspaper, television, and radio ads; writing employee newsletters; writing for direct mail; writing speeches, letters, and op-eds for whatever company I was working for at the time; and so on and so on. I enjoyed it. I had no problem with critical feedback or if someone told me I had missed the boat and needed to start again. After years of fine tuning my writing skills for Corporate America, I was technically good at what I did and the content wasn't personal. In other words, there was no risk.

While hiking in Italy with my mom, we met this amazing woman Gerry. She is funny, smart, socially fantastic, strong in mind and body, and creative. For the past year, she's been working on launching a site called Connections for Women, an online magazine where women can share their voice on topics that affect us all. She asked me to write a piece about my mom for a section called Extraordinary Women. I did. And it published last month in Connections for Women's premier issue. 

This, to me, was one of the greater risks I've taken with my writing. First, it was personal. Very personal. It was about my mom and her cancer. How much more personal can you get? And then there was the pressure to write well. Really well. After all, who wants to write poorly about one's mom? That's just bad karma. (And may subject you to years of bad birthday and Christmas gifts).

But the greatest risk of this particular writing experience has yet to come.

Here it is.

Are you ready for it?

SHARING THE LINK: http://www.connectionsforwomen.com/article_details.php?article_id=69