I have now been writing articles and reports for what seems a very long time. For the most part you would think that they are significant to me but in reality are for the most part pretty removed from me. The main significance to the articles I write is that they push me towards my goal of someday becoming a full time author. Despite this not many of them have a particular relevance to me directly. For the most part they are well researched and written and some have even won awards. Not one of them however reflects the struggles that I have personally gone through in my life.
That is until now when I decided it was about time I wrote an article describing my struggles with weight loss and diets. All my literary contacts were really surprised. Dietary articles are not seen as a serious article subject although they do abound. Every week in Redbook there is a new diet article. Every magazine for women on the market has a multitude of such articles. So why would I choose to pen an article about weight loss when I could be writing more important articles about school closures, corruption, drugs or some other more "worthy" subject.
Despite what my fellow literary colleagues thought I decided I would create my weight loss article anyway. It has always been my mantra to write what i want and think is important regardless of public opinion. I guess in this case because of my own previous struggles with my weigh and fitness the subject held particular relevance for me which as I have mentioned is pretty unusual.
Initially I had problems getting the article published through my normal publishing channels but switched to a new publisher who specialized in health matters and they were happy if not excited to take my article and publish it. This experience has been new for me and eventually very rewarding. However that said despite the new publisher asking me for more health related material, I have decided to return to writing my more natural style and subject matter, at least for now.
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