I Refuse to Sell Out With My Writing

One of the most important aspects of my Writer’s Journey is to always be real and authentic with my writing. If my writing doesn’t truly reflect the person I am and it doesn’t reflect my actual voice, then I’ve failed as a writer. I refuse to let that happen. I was reminded of this last New Year’s Eve when I received a seemingly random message on Twitter from a lady who told me she was looking for someone to do “clean writing”. She happened to see my Twitter profile and wanted to know if I was interested.And not only would it involve clean writing, but it was clean writing for a Christian, faith-based streaming service. So basically, I’d have to travel back in time 30 years or so to my church-going days and relive all of the hypocrisy and controlling, intimidating, fear-based beliefs I’d been forced into from birth until I was a young adult.Still, I was polite about the entire thing. I had my doubts about the validity of the offer. It seemed far-fetched that this lady found my profile to be engaging enough to discuss a $ 4,000-a-month writing job, without making mention of reading my actual writing, or seeing how anti-organized religion I was in my writing.Even after she only half-assed answered my first question, I was still polite to her. She hasn’t responded to my second question yet. And that’s fine with me. Most of you have probably noticed that trend in my blogs. I’m not a fan of hypocritical, repressive religious views. Writing clean, faith-based Christian programming is something I COULD do, but why would I? To me, it’s the same thing as taking a middle-management HR job for some boring-ass company that I have zero interest in. I do not care to be like Lumbergh’s character in Office Space, sitting around saying, “Um, yeah… Did you get the memo about the TPS reports?” for $48,000 a year.

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