Reading: Bio of a Space Tyrant
Music: Utopia: Redux '92 - Live in Japan
TV/Movie: Futurama
Link o' the Day:VillainSupply.com-Your Online Source For Everything Evil

Hey John! Where ya been?

I been around, and around. Don't you worry. Don't you frown.

It's been a heckuva busy week here at the Casa de Chaos. We come closer and closer to Pretty Maggie's brave move to cohabitation with yours truly. I spent tonight shouldering stuff out of the Kitchen of Fear and generally sweating through all the mugginess and wetness surrounding and covering dear ole Rhode Island.

In addition to all that, I've been busting my hump getting the Hollywood book off to the printers (iut left this morning, yay!!) and the Bulletin which, due to outside unforseen circumstances, isn't going to the printer until Tuesday--but still pretty soon for you subscribers.

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Last time I was here I talked about the ways we find and/or make time for writing. What I've determined is that it varies greatly from person to person. Kudos to Kathy from the previous post who banged out a book in four weeks. What sort of book was it? Fiction? Non-fiction?

Writers Digest tosses the spotlight onto a number of writers who report anywhere from four months to four years or more to write a book. Some folks write during the day with hours akin to a dayjob. Others, like myself, sit down in the early evening and work until betime. (Granted, sometimes my writing gets put aside for freelance typesetting--whatever pays the bills.) Others only work on weekends.

I think the key is to find a time that works and stick to it. other folks here have said as much and it seems to run pretty true with those who have managed to make a living out of this scam.

Now that we've figured out when most people write--does that mean we write during our most productive times? I'm an odd duck. I do my best work early in the morning. Do I write early in the morning? No. I have a dayjob. If it's slow, I may compose some notes and snippets of prose in a hidden window at my computer at work, but it's hardly productive. I do better on the weekends.

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Speaking of Writers Digest, the most recent issue has yet more articles on how to make a living as a freelance (nonfiction) writer. I'd love to break into this market. I took down a few notes today for articles which I should be able to find markets for. I tend to go for historical/nolstagia-related topics tho. Retrocomputing. Whaling ships. Old-Time Radio. I outlined two articles on typesetting, but wonder where I could sell those for good rates.

I'm open to suggestions. Any freelance writers out there want to share their story on how they got the ball rolling?

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Heard from Pedestal yesterday--it seems that their poetry editor wouldn't know a good poem if it bit them on their iambic pentameter. No worries tho. I've already found the next markets. Onward, ever onward!

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Cheers!