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And unless you're highly motivated to start a new work, back off for awhile...the muse doesn't play hide and seek for long
I beg to differ. Mine was on vacation for five years.
And unless you're highly motivated to start a new work, back off for awhile...the muse doesn't play hide and seek for long
I resemble that! No ghostwriting, but I've been picking up small content-writing gigs lately for places like Demand Studios and Constant Content, and before that I did how-to career self-help books for a niche press. Much of it work-for-hire, it's true, and not what I was thinking of when I decided to be a writer when I grew up... BUT "it's my day job," I'd tell myself, "and it's a day job I can work from home without even getting out of bed. And I'm getting money for writing. That's cool!"3) That ghostwriting gig? That's good money and it's easy work. See if your agent can round up more of those. Do one a year and think of it as your day job.
I'm taking to the trails for a week,alone.
I need to spew the last WIP from my soul, and toddle along a path shaded by bent boughs full of summer leaves, and tread through strips of sunlight like mile posts. Through a meadow ripe with Queen Ann's lace, dotted with wildflowers, with a curious hummingbird as my companion, and find a lone tree on some far away hilltop to lean my back against.
Ken
Today's official weirdness:
A poem that Doyle wrote over thirty years ago, written on a guard tower in Iraq.
That sounds lovely, Ken. WANT! Watch out for them hummingbirds, though - they can be tenacious when they think you know something they don't!I'm taking to the trails for a week,alone.
I need to spew the last WIP from my soul, and toddle along a path shaded by bent boughs full of summer leaves, and tread through strips of sunlight like mile posts. Through a meadow ripe with Queen Ann's lace, dotted with wildflowers, with a curious hummingbird as my companion, and find a lone tree on some far away hilltop to lean my back against.
Indeed. It immediately reminded me of this, and I wondered whether they were the same wall or at least part of the same structure. They're certainly part of the same spirit.Wow.
What you're seeing there is catastrophic loss of faith in the editor. And it's the editor's fault.
What I want to know is why the first editor sent it out to a second one in the first place? Or, is that what this entire deal is about? That if they were both happy with the draft they collaborated on, why use a second editor?
Uncle Jim, If you were going to start an e-zine specializing in a particular genre, how much money would you be willing to spend on a per word basis to pay your contributing authors?
Also, in a more novel-related vein, I've been reading quite a bit lately from some "authors" regarding what they see as the need for future novelists to "give away" substantial portions of their work until they get established in order to draw a publisher's attention. These folks have recommended using blogs and websites to publish early works and to get attention from people and publishers.
My own inclination is that these ideas are only a step or two removed from vanity sites where an author has to pay to get his work published, if you can call it that, and that it would incentivise publishers to require writers to pay to get them to even take a look at the writer's work. This is especially true in that most publishers would consider anything published on a blog or website to have been previously published and therefore would command only reprint rates.
But, more and more, recently, I'm seeing writers or "authors" recommending "giving away" some of their work in order to draw attention to themselves. What's your feeling in this regard?
(Yea! My 1000th post)!!!