Technology, Creativity, Spirituality – All Rolled into One

Writing for the web is about being a wordsmith. The art of composing words for a complex,
interconnected, structure of people and places. It is the ability to write for specific audiences, search
engines, and short, quick stops. It is writing, strategy, marketing, psychology, and business.

- All rolled into one.

Words written several years ago, a vision statement if you will; dreams of grandeur of being a successful online
entrepreneur, writer and making 6 figures to live the life I had only heard about. I set off on a path of exploration, learning, following my curious heart with the grandest of plans.

But as in the tortoise and the hare fable, speed does not win over consistency and commitment. Getting caught up in my own race became my downfall.   I am an idea person and those ideas don’t just happen overnight or by just having them.

My mission became clouded with hype and the vision.  The mission of helping others see and believe in their own potential through my own creative and spiritual example.  The idea closest to my heart was to put a ton of affiliates on my site, to raise money, to start a program that would help education AND bring creative ideas back to the schools.  With the slow decline of education with budget cuts and learning by rote, I wanted to see portions of the money we spend go to where I believed it would have a good use, whole heartedly believing those pipe dreams of earning tons of money could be turned around and given back to help our next generation flourish.  Not only would it encourage the creativity that seems to be cut with each line in the budget, but it would teach the kids about using the internet for good and giving back.

Boy, was I WRONG!

I lost my own balance of these things.

Technology moved faster than I did. While I once felt confident of my technical knowledge and basic coding abilities, I now fall short. HTML is what I know.  Static websites have been set aside for blogs and WordPress.

Creativity seemed to stall, as I hid in the shadows and fell into a trap of all my eggs (my fears really) into one basket.  I ventured forth in writing at Big Girl Bombshell. I stepped away from the genre I had passion about and into my fearful mindset, that I could not be a successful writer until I lost weight. My focus drifted away from living my life, the things I enjoy, by trying to force myself to fit into a realm that is only a small part of who I am.

Spirituality plays the biggest part, a cornerstone of the idea and vision behind Virtual Web Writer. Each and everyone of us has an authentic self.  The person with passion, hopes and dreams.  Often we get caught up in the day-to-day stressors and cover up, even forget, who we are.  Years ago, I attended a seminar by Wayne Dyer and his words, one simple sentence, has stuck in my heart.

Inspiration simply means living in spirit

Webster’s definition of spirituality is the quality or fact of being spiritual.  A predominantly spiritual character as shown in thought, life, tendency and tone.  The root of the word is spirit: the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.  My own definition is living the ideas that I believe in, that we all have the answers to living our passions and our dreams, which in turn bring about inspiration.   Taking chances to know who we are, share who we are, and follow it through no matter what our inner critic or others say about it.

Virtual Web Writer is about blending all those things and building a safe haven for not only me but
others like me who are forging the same path. A Write Place to Be when you need it.

Welcome!