A Platform Challenge I’ll Accept
I have decided to take on a challenge offered by another blogger so bear with me if I post odd bits and pieces here on my blog throughout the month of April. The challenge is called the April Platform Challenge and the challenger is Robert Lee Brewer, Senior Content Editor with Writer’s Digest Community and the author of the blog My Name is Not Bob.
Plus, there’s a prize.
But if I don’t win the book, that’s okay. The real prize is what might happen should this challenge do what Robert hopes…help writers build their platforms.
I will post here the first task of the challenge, which you would think at first glance should not be too difficult. However, if you aren’t used to talking about yourself or having to describe yourself, it is more difficult than you can imagine.
Here goes…
Position: Legal Assistant with public defender’s office, self-employed private investigator, writer aspiring to become published, editor/writer for local sports booster club, and blogger.
Social media platforms: Blogger, Facebook
Accomplishments: I put myself through college; I worked as a legal assistant at a law firm for 9 years before branching out to get my license and open my own business as a private investigator; I have owned and operated my own P.I. business, specializing in criminal defense for 12 years; I’m still a defense investigator but am now also working full time as a legal assistant with the public defender’s office; I have raised two wonderful boys; I met and married my soul mate (I wish this for everyone) and after 25 years the love is still strong; I finished my first book in 4 months after making the decision to finally put my ideas on paper (but I’m still editing the darn thing); and I’m also now working on my second book.
In one sentence, who am I? I am a wife and a mother who currently works as a legal assistant with the public defender’s office but who is also a licensed P.I. on the side as well as a writer and blogger in the leftover hours of the day who is attempting to build a platform while aspiring to become published.
If you had to describe yourself, would it be easy or difficult? Would you appreciate the positives of what you have accomplished or would it make you see the areas in your life where you’d like to accomplish more?
And if you are a writer or you are trying to build your own online platform, be sure to check out Robert’s blog and get in on the challenge yourself!
