Rita Arens started her blog, Surrender, Dorothy, while on pregnancy entrust to her now-eight-year-old daughter. In event of her new book launch, we asked her to look back in the wayback maker to share exactly how she discovered support in the blogosphere.
I keep in mind those early days — as well as my desperation for connection at strange hours — vividly. The shift from married-professional-on-the-side-short-story-writer to mom was rather jarring for me, as well as my new-mommy buddies seemed to be managing it a great deal much better than I was. In fact, I was kind of terrified to level with my new-mommy buddies as well as tell them exactly how lost as well as lonely I felt. I ended up being a starved blog reader, as well as after about a week of reading, I made a decision I needed my own outlet. Surrender, Dorothy was born.
Blogging rather just altered my life. I went from anonymously chronicling my baby’s poop routines to utilizing my genuine name as well as ending up being a contributing editor for parenting on BlogHer.com. around that time, I likewise got the concept to pull my preferred articles from a lot of blog writers as well as put them in a notebook so I might stalk the blog writers at the BlogHer seminar as well as get autographs. then it occurred to me I may not be the only person who would like such a thing, as well as I started working on the proposal of what ended up being the parenting anthology sleep IS FOR THE WEAK, which came out from Chicago evaluation press in 2008 — the exact same year as Heather as well as Whitney’s The Rookie Mom’s Handbook!
In 2009, I joined BlogHer full-time as well as started composing a young adult novel, The evident game (now available!!). My child is eight now, as well as my thoughts have turned from colic to captivating Charlie. The blog writers who taught me exactly how to take my baby’s temperature with a rectal thermometer are now providing me recommendations about when to provide a tween a cell phone. That’s the fantastic thing about blogging — if you comply with a blog writer whose youngsters are around the exact same as yours, you can share your parenting experience all the method through.
I’m still shocked my occupation has taken the trajectory it has, as well as I’m ecstatic to be still composing in my bit corner of the Web a few times a week. If you’re a new mom, the poop is still there — just inspect the archives.
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Thanks so much to Rita for sharing her journey with parenthood with blogs. Make sure to inspect out SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK for an entertaining collection of new-parent essays and The evident game for a true-to-life young adult novel.
Both books will make you laugh as well as cry however for absolutely different reasons.