If you are looking for a niche website, this isn’t it! My ADHD brain doesn’t do ‘niche’ it does ‘eclectic’!
I agonised for ages over business plans for blogs, blogging for profit and using the best keywords.
Should I:
- have one blog or several?
- use PhotoShelter or use my site for photo galleries?
- put everything on www.avetlens.com?
- put everything together on www.fenvillages.com?
- keep Superwomanblues separate and private…
- Keep agnonising until everything still wasn’t perfect and never get anywhere….?
Then I was diving into Julia Cameron’s book The artist within (again!) and doing morning pages. I wrote one of those epiphanies that anyone who does the morning pages know. “I have learned so much and put things together that is specific to MY brain….”
So I came up with:
“I aim to show that we can do anything we are passionate about, in spite of all our inner demons. I want to share my knowledge and the convoluted pathway that I came by it, to connect with and support my family, friends and colleagues.”
Publishing
Editorial/publishing stories and advice from my 40 years of research, writing and publishing, including 14 years as Editor in Chief of the Australian Veterinary Journal: https://avetlens.com/publishing
Photography
Here are my photo galleries and my travel stories. If you want to learn how I learned to take animal portrait photos for the Australian Veterinary Journal front covers for 14 years and how I am still learning things every time I go out photographing. https://avetlens.com/photography
Fens and family
My family history section was based on our book, Three Holes, portrait of a fen village. I am now keeper of the family archives and an obsessed (what else!) genealogist: https://avetlens.com/fensandfamily
Portfolio
Self explanatory, really.
Superwomanblues
This is a blog about my experiences with ADHD, anxiety and depression, and the strategies I use to keep it all at bay. And before you say, “Don’t be silly, YOU don’t get depression,” as someone who I had considered a friend said to me once, well, yes, I do.
Another friend used to call me superwoman, because I had a full time job, looked after my three kids (otherwise known as sending them to day care) and was so successful overall. He just never saw the frantic paddling of duckling feet beneath my still, calm exterior! So, although I never confessed it in those days, this is to show that even superwomen get the blues! https://avetlens.com/superwomanblues