“Staying The Course” With Gillian Polack for Women’s History Month
As mentioned a few weeks back, Australian author/editor, Gillian Polack, has been curating a blog carnival for Women’s History Month.
The carnival comprises women writers posting on the theme of “Staying the Course” — and there been some fabulous articles throughout the month.
My contribution posted on Thursday, under the title:
In The Case Of Big Life Decisions, Always Follow your Heart…
‘When Gillian invited me to post as part of Women’s History Month, her brief included the advice that all her guests would be writers and she wanted us to celebrate staying the course, focusing on either a part of our own lives or another woman’s. She did not specifically ask us to talk about writing but I thought, on first reading the email – and still think now – that there can be few careers or life decisions that test one’s ability to stay the course as surely as writing. So I decided that the slice of personal her-story that I will talk about today is my decision to pursue a writing career – which brings me immediately to the opening quote:
“In the case of big life decisions, always follow your heart…” ‘
To read the post in full please click here or on the title above.
And do take time to check out a few of the preceding or subsequent posts because there has been quite a diverse take on the theme — entirely as you’d expect. 😉
That’s precisely why I chose writers. Even those who have an ‘easy’ time of it don’t get it very easy at all. I could have filled this month ten times over with amazing stories of peoples’ lives.
It’s been a great series, Gillian, one I’m proud to have been part of: thank you.