Such a beautiful day...
Mar. 14th, 2010 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ostarellaIt's in the upper 40s again, the snow is almost all gone (except where the plows piled it up), birds are starting to show up by the hundreds... I sooo want to be outside, raking and cleaning up and getting ready for the warmer weather. But the ground isn't totally thawed yet, so can't dig, and it's too wet from the melt to rake without tearing the grass out by the roots. So I'm just enjoying the view and trying to get some indoor stuff done - the never-ending crap, y'know.
Starting to rewrite the short story for my end-of-the-month contests. Have four of them coming up and thank God, they all accept simultaneous submissions! But as soon as that's done, I have to start working on the next story. I guess that's where the "earning a living with this stuff" departs from the "I just enjoy writing" - on another site an author/editor referred to a writer's stories as their "product", and you have to keep building up the "inventory". Which puts kind of a cold spin on it, but it's true. You can't wait around forever for one story to get accepted - you have to keep writing and sending them out. So that "write every day" becomes not advice, but a necessity.
But one thing I'm discovering about all the fanfic I've written - now I can go back to some of the things I wanted to explore in those stories, but couldn't because they weren't "appropriate" for the characters or the fandom, and take those things and build them into an original story. And of course, I have a lot of short short stuff that can easily jumpstart a longer original as well. So it's kinda like having a set of "plot starters" sitting there waiting. :D
Another few days wait to see if I get a second interview on a job. My initial enthusiasm for it has fallen off a bit, but that's not unusual. Now I'm starting to think about the consequences - if I get it, can I actually do it, and if I don't get it, then what? But I'm not going to worry about it - just let it run around in the back of my head so I'm more prepared for either situation. It's not like I'm making a career decision - I've already decided I just want/need a job to pay the bills while I write. And I have enough in savings to get through April, so that gives me time before I really have to panic. LOL
Anyhoo, better get back at the housework and the stories. No rest for the wicked...
Starting to rewrite the short story for my end-of-the-month contests. Have four of them coming up and thank God, they all accept simultaneous submissions! But as soon as that's done, I have to start working on the next story. I guess that's where the "earning a living with this stuff" departs from the "I just enjoy writing" - on another site an author/editor referred to a writer's stories as their "product", and you have to keep building up the "inventory". Which puts kind of a cold spin on it, but it's true. You can't wait around forever for one story to get accepted - you have to keep writing and sending them out. So that "write every day" becomes not advice, but a necessity.
But one thing I'm discovering about all the fanfic I've written - now I can go back to some of the things I wanted to explore in those stories, but couldn't because they weren't "appropriate" for the characters or the fandom, and take those things and build them into an original story. And of course, I have a lot of short short stuff that can easily jumpstart a longer original as well. So it's kinda like having a set of "plot starters" sitting there waiting. :D
Another few days wait to see if I get a second interview on a job. My initial enthusiasm for it has fallen off a bit, but that's not unusual. Now I'm starting to think about the consequences - if I get it, can I actually do it, and if I don't get it, then what? But I'm not going to worry about it - just let it run around in the back of my head so I'm more prepared for either situation. It's not like I'm making a career decision - I've already decided I just want/need a job to pay the bills while I write. And I have enough in savings to get through April, so that gives me time before I really have to panic. LOL
Anyhoo, better get back at the housework and the stories. No rest for the wicked...
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Date: 2010-03-15 09:32 pm (UTC)But yeah, gotta just keep writing, once one's done, start the next ;-) Definitely no rest for the wicked, but at least you enjoy it :D