I made a deal with myself
Apr. 15th, 2004 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capA couple of days ago, I decided I wasn't going to shave again until I submitted a short story for publication. I'm going to write around 2000 words or so and I'm going to try scifi.com, as they pay $0.20 a word. I figure if I can sell 12 stories a year at that rate, I can pay my rent with writing. I like that idea lots and lots. It only takes me a couple of hours to write 2000 words; 40 or so hours of work a year for rent, I figure.
I may be wild and wooly when you next see me. But I intend to do this before leaving for Hawaii.
There's a very regal looking bluejay perched on a tree branch outside my window.
I may be wild and wooly when you next see me. But I intend to do this before leaving for Hawaii.
There's a very regal looking bluejay perched on a tree branch outside my window.
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on 2004-04-15 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-15 08:13 am (UTC)Nah, it's more like $500 unless the landlord cut him a break for being the only guy there.
But rememeber it *is* 18 Sturgis street and the dead walk the floors.
Tom
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on 2004-04-15 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-15 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-15 01:30 pm (UTC)This is hard work, the competition is fierce, and you will have to strong and persistent to make it happen. I think you *will* make it happen, but please don't set yourself up for failure by thinking this is going to be easy.
I'm not trying to discourage you, and I hereby offer critique & crying shoulder free of charge, but your goal is much harder than it may appear.
Good luck & Godspeed, writer dear.
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on 2004-04-15 01:35 pm (UTC);)
(luckily I did not establish a condition of successfully selling a story before being able to shave... I just have to mail the damn thing)
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on 2004-04-15 01:40 pm (UTC)I propose a bet:
You mail the story when it's been written. If it gets accepted, dinner is on me, at the time & place of your choosing. If NOT, you pay for dinner, and I'll help you revise it. Seriously, I am queen of critique, editor extrordinaire. You win either way.
Whaddya say?
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on 2004-04-15 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-15 02:03 pm (UTC)Write your ass off and pick sushi. ^_^
Whooohooooo!
on 2004-04-15 02:49 pm (UTC)Re: Whooohooooo!
on 2004-04-15 02:59 pm (UTC)scifi.com
on 2004-04-16 09:49 am (UTC)And what are the criteria?
Re: scifi.com
on 2004-04-16 12:05 pm (UTC)