First Blog
Be patient with me please, all you out there in cyberspace. I'm just entering the world of Blogdom. I am a lifelong, freelance writer wanting to encourage everybody out there in cyberspace who is interested in writing for fun or profit. I am the author of two adult books--a how-to and a novel, with the second novel in the hands of an agent. However, my travel, profiles, essays, humor have appeared in more than 75 national and regional jounals. I teach classes in Writing for Fun Or Profit, and have spoken at libraries and writer groups in more than two dozen cities in the past three years. Currently I am leading four writer workshops.
Where do I get the time? I'm old enough--not going to say how old--to have reached a point where I can use every hour of the day to do whatever I want. And what is that? WRITE.
Even though I love to write fiction, I am not really interested in traveling about doing the necessary promotion required for novels. So what do I write? I do a monthly humor column, and today, with a photographer friend I interviewed a delightful 14-year-old girl who has parlayed a 4-H hobby raising goats into production of soap from goat's milk ("Bea's Beauty Bar"--named for her favorite goat, Beatrice) . She not only makes the soap, she raises a different breed of goat whose hair she spins into yarn. (Ahh, the possibilities for spin off stories!)
Where did I find this contact? In the local newspaper in which a columnist did a feature about Katie, the Goat Girl. I contacted a magazine publisher for whom I have done a number of stories. He said, "go for it." So I am excited about working on this story. We have just viewed the 150 digital images my photographer friend shot today, and I should be able to submit the story within a couple weeks.
Where do I get the time? I'm old enough--not going to say how old--to have reached a point where I can use every hour of the day to do whatever I want. And what is that? WRITE.
Even though I love to write fiction, I am not really interested in traveling about doing the necessary promotion required for novels. So what do I write? I do a monthly humor column, and today, with a photographer friend I interviewed a delightful 14-year-old girl who has parlayed a 4-H hobby raising goats into production of soap from goat's milk ("Bea's Beauty Bar"--named for her favorite goat, Beatrice) . She not only makes the soap, she raises a different breed of goat whose hair she spins into yarn. (Ahh, the possibilities for spin off stories!)
Where did I find this contact? In the local newspaper in which a columnist did a feature about Katie, the Goat Girl. I contacted a magazine publisher for whom I have done a number of stories. He said, "go for it." So I am excited about working on this story. We have just viewed the 150 digital images my photographer friend shot today, and I should be able to submit the story within a couple weeks.
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