Plunging into the Future-Can We Get Paid to Write?
| 21 September 2011
Life goes on. I have gone to the World Science Fiction Convention and had a story reviewed. Despite the fact that it was quite difficult the consensus was I had "solid, decent writing". Definitely worth the time and money to go!!
As soon as I got home I had my knee operated on. After years of asking why I finally got my MRI and low and behold I did have something other than arthritis. Two tears and a pothole (what a name) that occurred in an "event" (which this doctor said is typical). Mine was lugging suitcases up and down the stairs in the Metro of Paris (they don't really believe in handicap access). It seems that Europe is so sophisticated and ahead of the curve but in many ways, WOW, they are not! Did you know the class system is alive and well and they are proud of it! Being called a "Cowboy" is an insult. It's funny, I always thought of it as something to be proud of-The Independent Spirit riding the range. They think of it as a clown.
I have decided I really want to work (meaning get paid), so I must work (meaning put forth some sample writing). I am going to write 2 entries here a week and see where that takes me.
First I cancelled all my Meetups, they weren't doing me any good. The literary analysis one was getting novels that were more and more depressing and the last anti-American. I had had enough.
I have a group that meets once a month on our own where we critique each others work. This month I will submit the first part of my rewrite of The Independent Trader to see what they think. I also have a SciFi group at the Oro Valley Library. We read Slan this month. I didn't remember most of it (it was the first scifi book I read, I was 12) but it was wonderful.
Now I have to figure out how to write so that the interest keeps up, especially for me. Sometimes I bore myself to death.
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