Build relationships, stay grounded, follow your own rules and let passion lead you. — ***Click here for part 1*** After many long and arduous months of thinking, overthinking, analyzing and overanalyzing…I left my 15+ year career in healthcare to pursue a freelance writing business. This was definitely NOT something I did on a whim or impulsively and I plan to share exactly how I…

Know yourself, have confidence and take action! — ***Click here for part 2*** After many long and arduous months of thinking, overthinking, analyzing and overanalyzing…I left my 15+ year career in healthcare to pursue a freelance writing business. This was definitely NOT something I did on a whim or impulsively and I plan to share exactly how I…

It’s not about finding who I am but who I want to be. — Recently, I saw a TikTok video of an Asian woman getting her 23andMe results. In a mere 15 seconds, she opens the envelope, looks at it and shows the audience what it says. The results are that she is Chinese and of Southeast Asian descent. The video ends with her…

Around mid-November, I read an article about how a writer was able to make $4K a month writing on Medium. I was astonished. I had been writing for most of my life and barely made a fraction of that in months. Of course, the article was well-written, straight to the…

As I wait to hear back about my pitches — I’m 6 months into my freelance writing journey and one of the changes I’ve experienced is the motivation to write. In addition to client work, I’ve been pitching regularly to websites and my acceptance rate is around 50%. For instance, if I submit 10 pitches, 5 usually get commissioned. I…

Never say never… — Lately, I’ve been thinking about my old dreams so I wrote an entire list that I’ve given up on despite thinking they’ll make me happy. Through that reflection exercise, I realized there are some old ones I’d like to revisit and some new ones I’d like to pursue. Create comics As a…

9. Director by 30 (and make 6 figures) — Everyone talks about how we need to keep dreaming, set goals, aim high and work hard. Because if you work hard enough, any dream is possible. Bleh…I don’t think that provides the full picture. Don’t get me wrong, I love to dream, not only when I’m sleeping. …

Did tampons ruin my Olympic swimmer dream? — When I was on maternity with my first child, the monotony of routine allowed me to rediscover my passion for writing. As a kid, I wrote stories upon stories, from true, untrue, to never been told. …

Anything I accomplished, my sister had already done it… — There are three of us: my eldest sister, my middle sister and me. The relationship I have with my eldest sister is like a snow globe; it stays dormant for most of the year but gets shaken up during the holidays. My childhood memories of her are patchy, most of…