So there I was, quietly making my way in the world. I had embraced the working world, and come to terms with the failure, or at least the long-term stalling, of nearly all of my Internet business projects. I hadn’t completely given up, mind you; I’ve continued studying business-related materials, and reading about the lives of my favorite successful people. And my work has continued to flow, privately. Sure, I’ve stumbled my way through my writer’s block a couple times, but those fits of creativity flashed out almost as quickly as they ignited. And there is not a single one of them that is publication-worthy yet.
And then, in a conversation with a new friend in the blogging industry, I gathered the courage to share my work with him. So away he went to read my posts and ideas at my various blogs. For a few days we didn’t talk, but when he returned, he paid me some nice compliments about my writing abilities. Then he asked me why I hadn’t followed through on any of them.
I offered up some very thorough explanations for the unexpected ending that had fallen on each of my projects, and then I threw in some vague plans for picking one or two of them back up. To keep this part of what’s becoming a long story short, I’ll just say that this conversation was enough to get the creative juices flowing again.
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