Who is Terrie Lynn Bittner?
I am the author of Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath--You Can Do This! This year, my second book, Home a Little Longer--Preschool and Kindergarten at Home, will be released.
My writing career began many years ago when my children were small. I had been tucking my work away in desk drawers and filing cabinets for years, but my daughter's creative writing mentor decided I needed a mentor of my own and gave me a one-month deadline in which to submit a manuscript to a magazine. I dropped it in the mailbox on the last day! Naturally, it was rejected, since it's almost a law that your first submission must be rejected, but eventually, I did begin making sales. About the time big magazines started leaving notes on my rejections saying, "Near miss" or "Try again," I realized I needed to give up freelancing for a while to focus on family. Although many do, I was unable to juggle family, homeschooling, and a writing career, and family came first.
To keep up my skills, I wrote a stress-free online column, maintained a homeschooling website with articles, and fooled around with just-for-fun writing. Eight years later, my children no longer needed a homeschooling teacher and I started contemplating returning to my writing career. At that very time, a publisher contacted me about writing a homeschooling book and I was back in business.
Today, I do content writing for a non-profit foundation, maintain several websites, and continue building the writing career I have relaunched.
Family Friendly Content came about when I started thinking of ways to build on my long history of providing content for others. I love to write, but I don't want to provide boring search engine optimized articles on subjects that aren't important to me. I've always written about things for which I have great passion. Ruminating on the popularity of the articles I've written showing how to homeschool with ordinary toys and objects, I decided to offer my services to companies who wanted to show parents just how much their products could do for a child or a family. I also love showing parents how to strengthen their daily family life or introduce morality or religion into their family. This allows me to have income, but to write about my passions while serving high-quality, family friendly companies and dedicated families who want the most family value for their money.