My Content Writing Business- The Journey

The Beginning: 

While I was working as a Website Content Writer in an IT firm, I had a thought to start my own content writing business.  First, in 2012; I started working part time and found my first client which too was an IT firm. 

With only that single client, I got good work sufficient enough to earn my living. I started posting on several online websites that offer freelancing work such as: 

• skillpages.com ( which is now no more) 
• freelancer.com
• upwork.com
• worknhire.com
• peopleperhour.com
• fiverr.com

I didn’t receive any good projects from freelancer, upwork, peopleperhour or fiverr.com.  But with reference, I used to get good clients. 

From upwork, I also got a client who was a fraud and took away my 1200 dollars. But this didn’t stop me. 

My dreams fulfilled:

My content writing business helped me to fulfill few of my dreams apart from helping me to earn my living.

The dreams I fulfilled: 

• Bought a laptop 
• Bought office chair and table

But, satisfaction was not at peak.  I had a feeling that something was missing. 

The Boredom in 2018: 

During my tenure of 5 years in my business, even though I had fulfilled few of my dreams, I started getting bored because whatever clients I used to receive projects were from same industry, i.e. IT. Now, because of my writing skills; I could easily get these clients however in order to write accurate content, I had to read a lot of technical material. 

And slowly, I discovered that my creativity was diminishing and I had to write more about technical things rather than including creativity. This reduced my interest in writing for IT firms. 

The Halt in 2019: 

Now, when you find losing interest in something, you start to get away from it. This is what happened with me. I lost interest and was utterly bored. As a result, I stopped accepting projects from my clients.

I was so bored that I started to hate the name “Content Writing”. This was in 2019. July 2019 was the month I completely left content -writing. 

My creative works published: 

Meanwhile, I used to give my poems and stories for publishing. Two of my published works are: 

Sr. No	Published Work	Anthology Name	Organization	Website
1.	The Precious Phase of Life – Childhood	Salad Days A Saunter : https://www.amazon.in/Salad-Days-Saunter-Various/dp/9383865482	Poetry World Org	www.poetryworld.org
2.	An Autorickshaw With a Fan	Colour of Dreams: https://yoalfaaz.com/t/publishing-our-first-book-colours-of-dream/3237	YoAlfaaz	www.yoalfaaz.com

Author list - Ekta . M. Kamlani

Certificate by YoAlfaaz

Certificate of Achievement from PoetryWorld Org

Your Quote – I write my quotes on yourquote with the pen name – Miss Kamlani

But, the question was What Next? 

What Next? 

Now, it was the question of my survival as I had completely stopped earning. I tried to find many different career fields where I could get the growth that I was longing for. I tried to identify my skills. I tried to find various career options based on my skills. Keeping in mind, my interest; I used to evaluate the career options.  

But I could stick to none. This was the darkest phase of my life in terms of career. I wanted to do this, I wanted to do that. I tried to find the purpose and meaning of my life so I can settle and be satisfied with one career option. However, nothing worked. 

I was disappointed, depressed, confused. I questioned my existence. My relationships suffered a lot. I could not identify what I am made for. I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t concentrate on anything, not even in meditation. 

I could not meet the timings. I became lazy and lethargic. I wanted to run away to some other place so that I could rediscover myself and start over again. But nothing worked. I was utterly frustrated. 

During this time, I was getting very little work but I was doing it because I didn’t have any other option. This lasted till Corona Virus took its entry. 

Rising Again: 

Yes, till March 2020; I was not at all in a mood to restart my content writing business because I feared that boredom. I had a feeling that this cannot fulfill my dreams. It is some other career option that will help me do so. 

But, as the saying goes; “Go along with the situation”.  I was doing nothing whole day except surfing internet, reading books, preparing for government exams that too with negative thoughts going at the back of my mind. I was starving of money but didn’t understand what to do. 

Finally, on 14th April 2020, I got a lead from one of the advertising agencies to write the content for their website. At that moment itself I decided that this was the only business that helped me fulfill few of my dreams. This is the only thing that I can do today during this down period of lockdown. 

That’s where I reflected on what content writing has helped me fulfill and how I can grow it further. Finally, I restarted my business. But this time, I have decided I will accept only those projects that include my creativity and do not make me feel bored. 

The way forward: 

So, I am back with my child, my friend in need, my content writing business and I am feeling happy.