I’ve been writing. Actually, I’ve decided that it’s about time I turned this writing career of mine into an official profession, and to do that I need to be paid for what I do. To this end I’ve begun to look for writing jobs that are paid. On Friday I submitted a story for an anthology based on fairy tales, or specifically the continuation of fairy tales after the point at which the story ended as originally told. I decided to tackle Alice in Wonderland. We’ll see where that goes.
My current project is to write ten 100-word stories under the category of speculative literature. I thought that with my recent foray into writing 50-word stories, twice that length would be a breeze. I’ve written one so far, nine more to go by the end of the month. Whatever doesn’t fit into the genre (or whatever I can’t get to stretch all the way to 100 words) will likely be posted on my fiction blog.
On the novel front, I’ve decided to have it professionally edited, so the first third of it is off having that done to it. (It’s like a week at the spa!) In the meantime I’m hoping the lovely person who I’ve asked to design the cover (one who might be reading this) is well on his/her way through the reading of my novel. On my end I’m working on the eighth edit of said novel; part 3 of 3 left to go, and then I’ll work on finishing the first draft of the sequel.
With all this writing and editing, by the time A-Z April rolls around I think I’ll need to spend a week getting edited. (If this makes no sense, you weren’t reading closely enough. Go back.)
And that’s my recent news. What are you working on?
August 14, 2016 at 10:20 am
It is the process for me. Getting IT out of my system.
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August 14, 2016 at 3:52 pm
It seems to me that the process of writing simply renews itself. The “getting-it-out-of-my-system” part, for me at least, only lasts a short time.
Thanks for your comment. 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 3:10 am
Good luck with your writing! It sounds like it’ll be a real adventure! 🙂
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August 10, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Thanks very much, Jude. 🙂
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February 25, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Good luck! It’s funny. I edit manuals in my day job, and I miss tons of things in my own writing. So I understand the need for a good editor. Good luck on the making money part. It seems that writing and photography are challenging fields to make a living off of indeed.
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February 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm
Right now I have no income – $20 a year would be a bonus. 😛
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February 25, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Lol, I can understand that!
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February 25, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Anyway, thanks for your good wishes and your input, Nato. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 10:30 pm
You should be paid. 🙂
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February 24, 2016 at 11:03 am
Thank you, Cush. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 7:21 pm
This caught my eye of course. Via your FB page actually!! 🙂 Glad I stopped in. What am I working on? Hmmm… A day job and a night job at this time…the day for a few weeks. The night – permanent… and then, I think I am going to need to hit the books for a while on a few other projects I have yearning to get on the go. I may start with a little break first though, read a book or something. Have not done that in a fair while. (I know this is disgraceful, as writers should be avid readers! Shouldn’t they?? I dunno really! There’s a topic in there somewhere my dear. 😉 )
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February 23, 2016 at 9:50 pm
I think even for writers, reading is up near the pointy bit at the top of the hierarchy of needs. Best to take care of oneself’s important bits first, like rest and food and sleep and family-type things.
Be well, my dear.
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February 28, 2016 at 5:58 pm
I shall do my bestestest. 🙂
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February 23, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Congratulations on the choice to have your novel professionally edited. You won’t regret it.
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February 24, 2016 at 11:02 am
Thank you, Don. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 3:13 pm
I always wanted to write endings to fairy tales. Prince Charming turns out to be a mean drunk; Hansel and Gretel lied, the woman was just a nice old lady, but they shoved her into the oven anyway; Little Red Riding Hood was a vixen who made up the wolf story so she could get the hunter alone in the woods.
I like twists on expected endings.
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February 24, 2016 at 11:01 am
Me too! You should do it. 😀
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February 24, 2016 at 11:19 am
I’m not that skilled a writer
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February 24, 2016 at 11:44 am
It doesn’t matter. If you want to write, write. There’s an amazing sense of release in just getting it down. I can’t begin to count how many things I’ve written that will never see the light of day because I just had to write them, regardless of how good I was at the time.
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February 23, 2016 at 1:46 pm
Best wishes with all your endeavors, Linda! I am juggling writing new poems, workshopping and editing older ones, and planning my first collection, thus far in my head rather than in google docs. And I have a bunch of topics I want to write about for my blog. And, I am, of course, way behind where I would like to be. What else is new?
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February 24, 2016 at 10:56 am
Catching up is hard to do, isn’t it? 😛 Best of luck with your future poem endeavours, Joanne! You’re already way ahead of me. 😀
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February 24, 2016 at 1:30 pm
Thanks, Linda! Looking forward to hearing about all your editing and new writing adventures!
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February 23, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Best of luck with all that writing.. hopefully it all turns into something great for you.
As for me.. I’m working on getting back to my blog on a more regular basis (couple posts a month really doesn’t cut it lol), while still working on finishing my own novel.. that I started well over a year ago and then let collect virtual dust on my laptop. Here’s hoping I can continue the momentum and get it to the point where I can get someone to edit it. fingers crossed!
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February 24, 2016 at 10:54 am
Thank you, my dear. 🙂 Best of luck with your novel! Hopefully you’ll get it to that stage in less time (four years) than I did! 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 5:08 am
Good luck with everything. I would love to know how you get on with the professional edit, as I am just about at that stage and would love to hear what you think.
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February 24, 2016 at 10:50 am
It’s pretty interesting so far… Amazing how many things I’ve missed! Thanks very much. 🙂
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February 23, 2016 at 3:54 am
What is “speculative fiction”?
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February 23, 2016 at 3:55 am
Excuse me, “speculative literature”
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February 23, 2016 at 9:29 am
The same thing as speculative fiction, only fancier. 😉
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February 23, 2016 at 10:07 am
Umm, that didn’t actually help
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February 23, 2016 at 10:11 am
It’s actually what you write. From Google:
Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella category of narrative fiction which includes the genres alternative history, fantasy, horror fiction, magic realism, science fantasy, and science fiction.
Don’t you have google where you live? 😉
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February 23, 2016 at 10:18 am
Ah, “making shit up” as I call it.
Google is fine, but I like to actually converse with people occasionally.
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February 23, 2016 at 10:35 am
Con…verse… I’ll have to look that up.
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February 23, 2016 at 3:13 am
Wish you all good luck Linda 😀
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February 24, 2016 at 10:26 am
Thank you, Irene. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 3:09 am
Best of luck with it all.
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February 24, 2016 at 10:24 am
Thank you, Tric. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 1:24 am
Well done, Linda.. I wish you much success with all of your projects. Those 100 stories sound like a lot of fun! Me, just still writing those horror stories this month.. will be doing a Film Noir type WhoDunIt in March.. been doing a lot of research in anticipation of it and watching old Film Noir movies.
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February 24, 2016 at 10:16 am
Oooh, I love Film Noir stories. Very cool. 😀 Thanks so much, Lori!
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February 24, 2016 at 11:05 am
Awesome 🙂 I hope you will join me then in March for my story. And you are most welcome, Linda 🙂
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February 24, 2016 at 11:05 am
I’ll do my best. 🙂
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February 23, 2016 at 12:13 am
Good luck! And keep us updated!
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February 24, 2016 at 10:13 am
Thank you, Sass. 🙂 I will!
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February 22, 2016 at 10:54 pm
Sounds like you are one busy person Linda. I hope that your writing career blossoms.
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February 24, 2016 at 10:05 am
Thank you, Paul. 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Good luck with ‘all’ of it Linda 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Thank you, KG. 😀
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February 22, 2016 at 10:23 pm
Go, Linda! At least you won’t have to take time away from your paid writing to search for missing bloggers.
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February 22, 2016 at 10:25 pm
Haha! Indeed! 😀
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February 22, 2016 at 10:53 pm
Very funny CM.
I was lost in a desert without my Word Press friends. Thank you for finding me Linda.
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February 24, 2016 at 10:03 am
I’m sure that’s what Ottawa looks like now… only with snow. 😛 hehe
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February 24, 2016 at 10:05 am
Yeah it’s snowing here again. Blehhh!
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February 24, 2016 at 10:12 am
It’s doing something out there here too – mix between snow and freezing rain. Either way, it’s a snow day. Blehhh indeed. 😛
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February 23, 2016 at 10:30 pm
lmao
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February 22, 2016 at 7:23 pm
Oh, wow! So awesome, Linda! Best of luck! 😄👍
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February 22, 2016 at 7:25 pm
Thanks, Veronica! 😀
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February 22, 2016 at 7:08 pm
Wow! Busy, busy, busy!!
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February 22, 2016 at 7:25 pm
I’m the Energizer Bunny!! 😛
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February 22, 2016 at 6:49 pm
Best of luck with it!
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February 22, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Thank you! 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Wow, you’re working on a lot of stuff! I recently decided that I need to get my butt into gear and start getting paid for my writing. My novel isn’t query-ready or agent/publisher-worthy just said so I’m going to give freelancing a shot.
I wish you good luck with it all! 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Thanks! Best of luck to you too, Rachel! I do think it’s important to get our names out there as much as we can. 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 6:54 pm
I think so too. I love what I do and have a passion for writing that it would be great if I could focus solely on that.
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February 22, 2016 at 7:02 pm
Ah, you never know. One day… 🙂
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February 22, 2016 at 6:37 pm
Well go girl!Me well I am working on life! Xxxxx
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February 22, 2016 at 6:42 pm
Excellent thing to work on, my dear. 😀
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February 23, 2016 at 2:50 am
🙂
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