Step One - Get a lot of money
Nov. 3rd, 2003 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capI'd really like to get a new tablet laptop. In my preparations for the novel writing thing, I resurrected my crappy old laptop. The abominable thing whirs like a jet engine; I'm sure it'll just up and die one of these days, undoubtedly at the worst possible time. Probably not the best thing to be writing on, but it's the most convenient at the moment. It would be so much nicer to have something faster that didn't make so much noise - and I could draw on it too! That would be awesome, a digital sketchpad with Photoshop on it.
It's also a little tough to write in the apartment without any moderately comfortable place to sit. I've replaced the sagging futon with several floor pillows, and the squishy swivel chairs in the dining room have transformed into rickety wooden folding chairs. Which brings up the next object of desire temporarily outside of fiscal reach... a luxurious, comfy couch.
After that, my next want is a washer-dryer unit. I've got a hookup available in the kitchen just waiting to be used; it would be so incredibly nice to not have to drag bags of laundry out of the house and scrounge for quarters all the damn time.
The awful thing is that I probably would need about $5000.00 to get all this stuff (step one). And if I had that much money... it should be used to reduce debt, not to make major purchases.
You know - if I wrote 500,000 words a year, and I got paid $0.20 per word... I would make six figures. That's only 2,500 words a day for 200 days. I *know* I could do that...
It's also a little tough to write in the apartment without any moderately comfortable place to sit. I've replaced the sagging futon with several floor pillows, and the squishy swivel chairs in the dining room have transformed into rickety wooden folding chairs. Which brings up the next object of desire temporarily outside of fiscal reach... a luxurious, comfy couch.
After that, my next want is a washer-dryer unit. I've got a hookup available in the kitchen just waiting to be used; it would be so incredibly nice to not have to drag bags of laundry out of the house and scrounge for quarters all the damn time.
The awful thing is that I probably would need about $5000.00 to get all this stuff (step one). And if I had that much money... it should be used to reduce debt, not to make major purchases.
You know - if I wrote 500,000 words a year, and I got paid $0.20 per word... I would make six figures. That's only 2,500 words a day for 200 days. I *know* I could do that...
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on 2003-11-03 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-11-03 06:16 pm (UTC)Plan B... or: Insight from kaiwoklaw
on 2003-11-03 04:28 pm (UTC)2. Furniture: I am also wishing I had more comfy things to sit on in my apt. I have a BJ's Warehouse Club membership, and they sometimes have cheap furniture. I've also seen beanbag style chairs that are shaped more like a recliner with an ottoman for a hundred something at newbury comics if that's in your price range. Those round cushiony chairs on a wicker base are usually pretty cheap too.
3. Laundry: I still hate laundry, but I now go to the laundromax on park ave. You get a card that you put money on so no quarters and they have a ton of huge washers so I only have to go once a month to a month and a half and I can do laundry in mass quantities.
mucho trabajo, pocito denero
on 2003-11-03 06:05 pm (UTC)2. i know it sounds gross, but...the best comfy furniture i ever had in my stint out of mommies house i bought at salvation army. yes, good ole sally's. it was a double wide chair, over stuffed, and the most wonderful thing you could ever fall into late at night and watch tv.
3. if i only wrote more, oh the money i could make. wait.... i think ive heard that before, oh yeah! i said that too! course, i never let people read my work..i think thats why i dont make money, teehee.
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on 2003-11-04 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
on 2003-11-04 09:10 am (UTC)no subject
on 2003-11-04 09:17 am (UTC)Can you send over a one paragraph summary of the work, as well as your bio.
Have to do a headshot for your back cover, soon!
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on 2003-11-04 10:31 am (UTC)I'll have a manuscript within a month...
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on 2003-11-04 11:53 am (UTC)male or female protag??
Email over a few lines.
FYI - A and I will be in Hartford on Sat Eve/ Sun AM. Feel like driving to Hartford for an early brunch?
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on 2003-11-04 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2003-11-04 03:56 pm (UTC)