Hey! Welcome to OfficiallyAnny.com. I’m Anny and I’m just leaving this message here, to say hello and to share a bit about my work. I started my career as an author when I wrote and published The Worst Book I’ll Ever Write, back in April 2012.
I was thirty years old, feeling like a failure, feeling like I was someone who couldn’t finish anything I started and not sure where I was going or what I was doing with my life.
I was drifting to sleep one night actually, feeling extremely frustrated with my life and myself, when the thought came to my mind - write the worst book I’ll ever write, how to overcome perfection and publish your first book in just five days.
So I went to sleep that night and woke up with the same thought in my head, and it was almost like a challenge to myself, so I decided to rise to the challenge and actually do it. I wrote and published my first book in just five days, I called it the worst book I’ll ever write and I proved to myself that I could finish something!
The feedback and reviews were five star and they were really encouraging. but my achievement was more personal than receiving recognition for the book if I’m really honest - you know, The Worst Book I’ll Ever Write helped me to believe that I wasn’t a failure and it restored the belief in myself that I could do great things in my life.
So here I am now, I am an author, but I’m not your traditional, fit in the box, follow the path, kind of author. Infact, that’s not who I am as a person anyway. And the truth is, I don’t even really enjoy the process of writing and publishing books - I journal and I’m always writing in my notes - but writing books is like the hardest process ever! Probably for me it’s because I find it so hard to focus on one thought or idea for too long and is probably why I write my books so quickly and I guess that’s why I wrote the book that I did - I was trying to find an easier way to do it. And I wrote that. To be honest, I know that there are authors that really do enjoy the process of writing but that’s just not me, I don’t understand that joy, but you know what, the end product is just a great feeling so I know that that might make it worth it for others and that’s what gives them that joy in the process.
So really, the question for me then, is - why have I stuck to being an author if I don’t really enjoy it, why would I do that to myself, right?
Well, it’s because I realised that being an author is so much more than writing and publishing books. Being an author has helped me to understand myself better, it’s given me opportunities to overcome my fears and it’s really helped me to grow as a person and I love development, I love growing and evolving and learning and becoming more self aware, so it’s really brought a lot of that in to my life, so it does make it worth it.
It’s helped me to accept that for most of my life, I was actually trying to be someone I thought I needed to be to make others happy, but it wasn’t me at all. I was an expert at, if you like, colouring in without going over the lines, because that’s what looked nice, but really inside, I just wanted to grab the pen and colour as if the lines didn’t even exist.
So, Officially Anny dot com is the window to my authentic, line free world, if you like, and at its core, my purpose is just to use my personal experiences to inspire and encourage others, and that includes you!
I’ve learned to own my thoughts, my ideas and my perspective of the world we live in and the life I get to experience every day and just really use my creativity to express that as truthfully and meaningfully as possible.
You know, it’s a continued process of development, but just like writing an outline for one of my books, what you’ll see here is an outline for my body of work and it’s sealed with a commitment from me to develop it and to fill in the pieces and to build on it over time! But what is here is not a completed, finished product, but it is a work in progress. And really that reflects me, because that’s who I am, that’s who I am as a person - a work in progress.
So if you’re interested in finding out more about me as an author or want to just stay updated about developments here at officially anny dot com, and I’ll say that there’s a lot that’s gonna be happening, so please do, then you can sign up to join my mailing list, just pop in your email address and your name. I’m not in to bombarding your inbox, like every day or every week and I don’t share your details, but it’s just a way that I can update you when something’s happening and something new’s coming and keep you abreast, if you like, of those developments. But if you’re just here to just have a look around, then that’s fine, please feel free to do that. Click on any of the titles below and you can find out more.
And really all that’s left for me to say is thanks for stopping by, have a great day and I hope to connect with you again very soon!