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Where to start?
I guess I’ll begin with my handle, danceswithwords. This name struck my mind quite randomly in a moment of clarity and true inspiration when I was house sitting and pet sitting for a coworker about six years ago. Away from home and somewhat bored, I decided to give blogging a whirl for the first time, and signed up for a free account on Blogit, aka: the Blogging Network / BN. I quickly fell in love with the real time publishing and instant access to readers and writers, to conversationalists, critics, and people generally looking to be creative and have a good time doing it.
When the name “danceswithwords” suddenly popped into my mind back on that wintry night as I tried to think of a screen name to begin my blogging, I didn’t know how much it would impact my life. I simply thought it was a clever screen name for a new online writing social network I’d stumbled upon. Danceswithwords soon went from my blogging handle to the name of my writing and marketing business that I created shortly after, Dances With Words, LLC, and of course, it became my perfect handle on Constant-Content. I love the name because it instantly gives the right idea about my creativity and my passion for writing, words, and projects involving them. At least I think so.
I started writing way back when I was a young girl, teaming up with my younger brother in creating our own pretend newspapers and then later starting dozens of short stories of juvenile fiction on my own. It took me until college to realize my calling was creative nonfiction. To this day, I still credit my college journalism professor for giving me the push I needed to realize my career dreams, to believe in myself, and to make it happen. As part of our grade – actually, to pass the class – we had to get something published in a newspaper or magazine. She required it – and thank god, because I honestly don’t know how long it would have taken me to figure out it really isn’t that difficult once you believe in yourself and stay motivated despite any rejections you may get.
When I found Constant-Content, I knew I’d landed on a gold mine. I can’t exactly remember how I stumbled upon it – quite possibly someone else’s ad on a writing site or even Craigslist…. But the main thing is that I’m so glad I did find it. I started out with all the hopes and dreams when you realize you’re only so far along but you actually know what you want to do with your life. Constant-Content allowed me to be myself – as creative as I wanted to be, writing about any topics I found interesting, and all the while feeling great about my successes and my potential as a writer.
Constant-Content opened my writing horizons more than I could ever imagine. In gaining such great experience in so many topics, I soon found that I could branch out and be creative on many more levels. CC showed me that my only creative limitations are those I place on myself. After meeting a new Web savvy friend at my work back in 2007, I soon found myself running my own Web site, Life Love Beauty, which is a women’s interest site on beauty, relationships, weddings, and more. This site now takes up a good bit of my free writing time, but I still try to keep myself involved in Constant-Content and a bunch of other writing endeavors as I find them, or as they find me. I’m also beginning to write my first book that I fully intend to publish.
As Word Gypsy mentioned, I did pester her to jump on the CC bandwagon. I am so glad she did, for I really am proud of all her successes. I can’t imagine what CC would be without her. Personally, I have been busy with a fulltime job and my other writing endeavors (not to mention a wonderful husband and an adorable border collie puppy, trying to keep the house clean, and on and on), but I do believe it may be time once again to come up with a new motivational contest for some of the writers on Constant-Content. Just as long as I don’t have to catch up to #1!
Original Articles. Constant-Content.