Summary

The author writes not for financial gain but to inspire positive change in themselves, their community, their children, and their homeland of Cuba.

Abstract

The author, a grant writer by day, expresses a deep-seated commitment to writing as a means of fostering positive transformation. Despite their ability to write effortlessly, monetary rewards are not their primary motivation. Instead, they are driven by the desire to effect change within themselves, their community, and their family. Their professional role involves creating initiatives that benefit the community, emphasizing a collective rather than individual achievement. Personal writings on their blog and other platforms are aimed at sharing spiritual insights and life lessons, particularly for their children's future guidance. The author also writes to advocate for freedom in Cuba, their parents' homeland, and to secure a better future for their autistic child. They view their literary work as a legacy and a tool for communicating truths about their heritage and family history. The financial aspect of writing is seen merely as a means to continue their mission of impacting positive change.

Opinions

The author has a profound respect for full-time professional writers but chose a different path due to personal circumstances.
They believe that their day job as a grant writer has significantly improved their writing skills and has been instrumental in their ability to contribute to community development.
The author values the impact of their writing over the financial rewards, seeing their work as a form of public service.
They write to share their spiritual journey and personal experiences to guide others, especially

I Write to Impact Positive Change

Why I don’t write for money.

I respect every professional writer making a living wage from writing full-time. In fact, I admire you. You are doing exactly what I didn’t have the courage or confidence to do over 20 years ago when I graduated from college with my English degree.

I self-indulgently wrote and journaled to learn, grow, and heal my young soul in my youth. I wrote for grades and a degree. I wrote to release emotional pain.

I wrote to impact positive change in myself.

But even now, I still don’t write for money, though the words seem to flow from my mind to the keyboard effortlessly these days.

Today, I write to impact positive change.

Sixteen years at my day job as a grant writer has been a blessing to my writing abilities for it has helped me to hone the skill in a way I never imagined. Still, writing is not all that I do in that capacity.

When I write at work, I design a program, project, or initiative that will hopefully, contingent on a successful award, result in tangible positive community impact. There is no “I” in my day job; there is only “we.” I serve the community in exchange for my salary. In that respect, I am a public servant.

As a public servant, I write to impact positive community change.

Fortunately, my day job keeps me and my family secure and stable so that when I do write on my blog, for my passion project at cubanswithwings.com, or here on medium, it is to also impact positive change.

I write about my spiritual journey and all the lessons I’ve learned along the way, so that I may light the path for others to follow. I write so that others don’t make the same mistakes that I once made.

I especially write for my children for I know none of what I write today will make any sense to them at this moment. But when they are older and wiser and forced to make those difficult life choices, I hope that my writings become their guide to help ease their burden in making those difficult life decisions.

I write to impact positive change in the lives of others.

I hope my writings become my children’s legacy. I hope that through my writings, I can impact positive change in their father’s and grandparents’ homeland of Cuba. I hope that by using my literary gifts to help communicate truth — the truth of my deceased grandparents and that of the people of Cuba — I can do my part in helping to usher in freedom for Cuba.

I write for Cuba’s freedom so that my children and their children will have a free and sovereign homeland to claim and to which to return.

I write to impact positive change in my parents’ homeland.

I write for my forever baby, my middle child: a growing fourteen-year-old boy trapped in the mind of a toddler. I write so that whatever earnings I make from my writings (now and in the future) will ensure that he will always be cared for, even when my time on earth is done.

I write to help make my autistic child’s future brighter. I write now for tomorrow; to help my other children take care of my forever baby, my fourteen-year-old with nonverbal autism, when they are all grown.

I write to impact positive change in the life of my special needs son and his future caretakers.

I write so that I may light the path for my children even when I am no longer alive.

I write to help impact positive change in the lives of my children.

The monetary returns from my literary investments simply help me to impact positive change.

That is why I don’t write for money. I write to impact positive change.