Keep on Plugging

What is it that we love to do?

We love to write

and we love to make art.

We thrive to create and that seems

to be our goal.

We also long to earn money doing what

we love to do.

What do we do?

We develop our own websites,

we create our own blogs,

and we write for these fun writing sites

where we also can earn.

And what do we also do?

We learn about the ins and outs

of social bookmarking

and learn of all kinds of different ways

to increase traffic to our websites

so that we can establish our new businesses

and sell our art and for me it is paperdolls.

Yet, sometimes it seems like such a struggle

to figure out which things work

and which things don’t.

Be careful as all these advertising

places want to take your hard earned money.

Yet, we’re new and we want

our customers too.

And when we write our stuff,

somedays we find it a struggle

and our writer’s block gets the best of us.

Yet, we need to keep on plugging and

finding our way in this wide, wide world

of the future of internet.

Some days it is just hard to get going.

Today for me was a struggle,

trying to get questions answered,

figuring out if selling on amazon is going

to be right for me.

I collected my first lyric poem and

spent some fun time

creating a musical video of me

singing my poem on you tube.

I sounded weird as I wasn’t

quite sure how to sing my poem.

I sound better when I am singing

in the car with cool music to accompany.

I probably should stick to singing in the car.

But what I really want to do is

get back to writing and creating my paperdolls.

We sometimes seem to get side tracked

when we really need to focus on what we

love to do.

And once the flow gets going we just can’t stop.

And after I’m done writing for a little bit,

I need to take a break and work on my

new line of Gothic Girl paperdolls.

Gonna be creepy!

So keep on plugging,

we’ll get there someday.

Jennifer Jo Fay

December 16, 2011