BigShoes

After completing a whole year, I thought of posting the first BigShoes post today but then I thought it might be better to tell you the BigShoes story. Oh yes there is a story. I’m sure many a freelance writer is faced with writing about something they aren’t sure they want to write about. I had a history in freelance writing of health, nutrition and diet topics. I could tell you about the health benefits of exotic fruits and berries that I had researched, and I could share all the things I learned about green fuel and transportation…and I could be funny when the research warranted it, hey, you can’t make some of this stuff up.

I had done some humor and rant writing, written insulting quiz results for teenage girls having fun on the internet…or perhaps not after they read my insulting answers and I was looking for some better blogs. I can’t remember where I found the Today.com ad to sign-up, but I sent them an email saying I could write for their health blog they had advertised. A very nice man replied with a quick inquiry of could I write on women’s topics.

This is where you hear the needle scratch across the record in the middle of the movie. What? Women’s topic…this man has no idea…blech…women’s topics.

Turning point movie music as I stared at the email on my computer screen “eeny, meeny, miny moe” …trust me it was exactly like that.

Well maybe writing another health blog wasn’t such a good idea, people were probably worried about a conflict of interest, should I really put any stock into that old saying write what you know…maybe I’m the only woman who applied…heck they didn’t even have a women’s interest site, it would be new, how new…brand spanking new…I’d be getting in at the ground floor of this women’s interest site…“eeny, meeny, miny, moe”…just like that.

Oh I sent that man an email, something like sure I think I could do that…I mean after all what would that site entail…some fashion, some makeup, some pink whatever…I can do that, scribble, scribble, scribble….toss that outline in the waste basket.

Well as you see I did it, and it’s been a year. I never asked that nice gentleman if sports coverage (Stiletto Run) and a 4th of July Jaws weekend, (I think we did that on Memorial Day and Labor Day too) was fodder for women. Maybe the site name was misleading but they kept me around, even though the only shoe coverage was that Stiletto Run for a while. Like I’ve said before though, you’d be amazed at all the non-fashion shoe stories there are in the news. Who would have thought it?

Well, Happy Birthday BigShoes. I’m glad I didn’t delete that email. And the moral of the story for any of you writers out there…write what you know.

It’s been a year for BigShoes this week. Wednesday marks the official date of BigShoes’ first post.

Happy Birthday to BigShoes, Happy Birthday to BigShoes, Happy Birthday dear BigShoes, Happy Birthday to BigShoes!!!! And many more!!!!

We also have to add HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TODAY.COM. It was about this time that Dave and the Today.com crew put together a handful of blogs to start the VIP program. The network has been growing ever since. So, Happy Birthday Today.com and thank you for all the opportunities in blogging.

Plans are we’re going to celebrate BigShoes for the month of March. There’ll be highlights of all your favorite posts so look for the best of the best to be listed on BigShoes. So if you are a Jaws fan or a Victoria’s Secret or Danica Patrick fan NOT, then this is certainly the place to be.

We’ll have fun sharing with you the behind the scene antics of our Google, Yahoo and whatever other search engine there is visitors. You know the ones…you wouldn’t believe what they search for folks. Oh how I blush, as should they.

BigShoes is not the only celebration going on. We are also celebrating the launch of my two new entertainment blogs TVScape and The Inside Soap.

I have to yell it from the rooftops…check out my new blog WritelyApplied at Today.com, especially if you want to explore your creativity. We are in the early stages of setting up creative workspaces for us to post stories and poems to, brainstorm and support each other.

Writely Applied is a vision inspired by the incredible journalist, Nellie Bly who said “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”

The vision is about writing…any writing, all writing and no writing in particular. It is a vision of writer’s resources. Not just for journalists, bloggers, novelists or poets. It is a library, a stationary shop, a café with WiFi. It is wherever you are when you are writing, thinking about writing or reading about writing. It is you if you want to be a writer.

So what are you waiting for? Join us at WritelyApplied today!

BigShoes is just that, it is about the big shoes we try to fill in our everyday lives. As women we have the pleasure of wearing different shoes for any occasion. Our shoes are full of color, our shoes are full of personality and sometimes our shoes are all about stress and pain! BigShoes, a metaphor for our condition… (more…)