Greetings all,
I\u2019ve been shifting my writing platform focus a little lately, so it seemed like a good time for more of a personal update.\u00a0 (Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not completely redoing the blog.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Brief History of Writing for Life<\/em> Then I learned more about marketing and audience and such, and realized that that was too broad – aside from the teen writers part, it was too hard to actually tell who would and wouldn\u2019t benefit from reading my posts.\u00a0 I needed to narrow down who my target reader was.\u00a0 So, I cut it down to Atheist writers more specifically.\u00a0 (The tagline as I\u2019m writing this is still \u201cFor teen Atheist writers, by one,\u201d although I\u2019ll probably have updated it by the time the email for this goes out.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Current State of Mia\u2019s Writing Affairs<\/em> That gives me a specific focus when it comes to my actual fiction content and my social media (currently just Twitter for the most part, although I have a writing Instagram I could revive any time). As you\u2019ve probably noticed, my email list is fairly quiet outside of blog post updates, except for the occasional resource like a free conference that I think you might like.\u00a0 I\u2019m waiting until I have more content that\u2019s of value before I start sending more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not 100% sure what I\u2019m doing with this blog.\u00a0 I have no plans to discontinue it, as I sometimes have stuff to say and like having a nonfiction outlet, but I’m also not entirely sure how it fits into the grand scheme.\u00a0 I like to write about writing, so I don\u2019t see myself changing that aspect of it.\u00a0 I also like writing the occasional Atheism article, and I feel like I\u2019m going to start writing nonfiction about ace\/aro stuff at some point.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of my platform somehow – I just haven\u2019t clearly defined what my goal for it is, so I\u2019m just kind of posting stuff and maintaining the status quo right now.\u00a0 I might make Writing for Life slightly more detached from my email list – right now they come as a package deal, with no way to opt-in to only one or the other – and keep it as more of an \u201corganized collection of general thoughts on life\u201d for a bit, and\/or I might bring it more explicitly in line with my focus on ace\/aro representation.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t chosen a course of action yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening behind-the-scenes around here. Greetings all,I\u2019ve been shifting my writing platform focus a little lately, so it seemed like a good time for more of a personal update.\u00a0 (Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not completely redoing the blog.) A Brief History […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-blog-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Although I have some clearly defined interests, I have a hard time picking one to stick with for a while when it comes to writing, so when I launched Writing for Life it was tag-lined \u201cTeen writers living life while making it better.\u201d\u00a0 The idea was that I could write about writing, Atheism \/ ideological thoughts, and random life stuff and make it all fit together in a logical manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then over the summer, I realized I\u2019m asexual and probably aromantic.\u00a0 (Incidentally, National Coming Out Day is the 11th of this month.)\u00a0 As writing and being ace has come up in various conversations, I\u2019ve noticed that people get excited about having more ace characters in fiction.\u00a0 Given that probably half or more of my own characters over time have been ace without my even realizing it, and that out of what I\u2019m interested in writing, it serves the biggest social need, I\u2019ve decided to build my author brand around providing ace\/aro spectrum representation in fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s going on in your writing life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"