I’m not a Hipster. I don’t follow trends.
What I write about might not make the bestseller list like James Patterson. It’s called a bestseller list for a reason–those books sell millions of copies.
Yet I’ve always been a Visionary in thinking that you can have your own version of a full and robust life living in recovery.
To this end I’ve formed a business and I’m set to publish a second nonfiction book.
That’s what it’s like to be a writer of left of the dial topics:
You’re not Danielle Steele. You won’t live in a building on Central Park West.
You prefer the hidden streets and neighborhoods that no one else wants to explore.
You toil away every day on your writing. If you’re lucky, there’s no writer’s block.
You have something to tell the world so you say it loud and clear.
You create a blog when the New York Times won’t publish you.
You won’t quit in your goal of championing recovery for everyone.
Here’s the scoop:
The writing life is not for everyone. It’s for those of us with an artist’s temperament.
It helps if you have a head for business too so that you can sell tons of copies of your books.
Having a mission for what you want to accomplish by writing a book is imperative.
My goal is to help mental health peers succeed at going to school and finding and keeping a job they love.
In a perverse way, this would satisfy the Republicans and Conservatives who would like to see that no one uses up “entitlements.”
Yet riddle me this: isn’t the mortgage tax deduction on an income tax form a kind of entitlement?
My goal is to help mental health peers live full and robust lives.
A J.D. is not required to have this kind of life.
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