Have you ever been pulled or pushed in an undefined direction? That feeling that waits until quiet moments to ask you, “Who are you? What are you doing?”

I have.

And like some irritating gnat, I swatted that feeling away many times muttering “Be quiet and leave me alone. I am fine. Everything is fine.” Shoving my self-doubt down where it belongs, hidden from the judgement of others.

Sometimes though, I ran screaming from that feeling to hide under my bed. After rationality kicked in, I would crawl out laughing a little and shaking it off.

It’s just a feeling, right?

Your life is and will be just fine, right?

You have all the time in the world, right?

Or, you could stop hiding and listen to that feeling.

Don’t fight the questions. Answer them. After 29 years, I finally did.

Hi, my name is Dawn Burton, and I won’t hide anymore. I am a writer.

I love words. I love the power, the subtly, the passion, the delicacy of carefully crafted and interwoven words.

As a graphic designer, an advertising consultant, and a mass medium business owner, I have worked with hundreds of businesses over the past 17 years. With that knowledge, partnered with passion, now is the time to pursue the dream of my 13-year-old self as she filled the pages of a spiral-ring notebook with an epic adventure about saving the world, needing to share it with others. Now is the time to write.

So, what feeling speaks to you in your quiet moments? What question are you not answering? Are you going to wait years or decades to answer them? Or are you going to try to do that now?

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