Tweet I’ve been blogging here for 4 years and in that time, the gifts I’ve received from starting this blog has far exceeded the time and effort it’s taken to keep it up. I’ve connected with other like-minded writerly friends. It’s widened my exposure helping new clients to find me when I lived in the Bay Area, California and now as a freelance writer in Hawaii. It’s sharpened my writing skills. It’s given me a platform to help other writers. And it’s been the portfolio by which I’ve landed a column for The Writer magazine, and various other writing endeavors.…