And so it goes

So now we are getting all the email notifications we haven't gotten over the last couple of weeks. Fun.

Day three, and I have an appointment with an employment agency that I'm not looking forward to. They are going to make me take a typing test and all that stuff I'd hoped I'd finally put behind me. Still, it must be done.

I confess, if it weren't for the financial worry, I'd be very happy right now. I enjoyed cleaning the house yesterday, doing all the things I tend to put off because who wants to be scrubbing a tub on a Saturday when one could be with friends and family? I enjoyed getting dinner ready, and having it on the table just as the husband came through the door. I enjoyed watching Charlie and his friend play outside, making them an after-school snack, and yelling out the door that they weren't to play in the front yard.*

In short, I rather like being a housewife.

I have taken the advice of several people and have gone onto Idealist.org and craigslist.org. I found several 'looking for freelance writer' things on craigslist, and am also now harboring the fantasy that I can do that part-time work and freelance stuff, and that would be enough to sustain us.

Of course, I am one of probably a million people who've responded to those free-lance adds, so my hopes aren't too high. It would be nice, though.

So, I soldier on, and try not to worry too much about what tomorrow will bring. Right? Right.

*busy street

And so it goes

So now we are getting all the email notifications we haven't gotten over the last couple of weeks. Fun.

Day three, and I have an appointment with an employment agency that I'm not looking forward to. They are going to make me take a typing test and all that stuff I'd hoped I'd finally put behind me. Still, it must be done.

I confess, if it weren't for the financial worry, I'd be very happy right now. I enjoyed cleaning the house yesterday, doing all the things I tend to put off because who wants to be scrubbing a tub on a Saturday when one could be with friends and family? I enjoyed getting dinner ready, and having it on the table just as the husband came through the door. I enjoyed watching Charlie and his friend play outside, making them an after-school snack, and yelling out the door that they weren't to play in the front yard.*

In short, I rather like being a housewife.

I have taken the advice of several people and have gone onto Idealist.org and craigslist.org. I found several 'looking for freelance writer' things on craigslist, and am also now harboring the fantasy that I can do that part-time work and freelance stuff, and that would be enough to sustain us.

Of course, I am one of probably a million people who've responded to those free-lance adds, so my hopes aren't too high. It would be nice, though.

So, I soldier on, and try not to worry too much about what tomorrow will bring. Right? Right.

*busy street

OM quite possibly G

So I'm on craigslist.org looking for jobs, and in the writing section there is a bit for a literary agent. I don't know enough about craigslist to judge whether or not a successful agent would be advertising on it, but, thinks I, doesn't hurt to contact the dude, right? So I email him, tell him about my 'young adult' novel and my "WIP" which is the mystery thingy I just did for NANO.

Then I get this email back:

RE: The WIP To begin, Carol, we would like to see the first three chapters, a two-paragraph synopsis and a two-paragraph author bio - all as non-zipped Word.doc attachments, please.

So...huh.

He's an 'agent' not a publishing company and he might not accept me anyway after he sees the story and even if he does there's still no guarantee it will get accepted by a publisher, and who knows what kind of contacts he has, but the door is just a tiny bit more open than it was before, right?

And PS. I suck at synopsis. Yikes

OM quite possibly G

So I'm on craigslist.org looking for jobs, and in the writing section there is a bit for a literary agent. I don't know enough about craigslist to judge whether or not a successful agent would be advertising on it, but, thinks I, doesn't hurt to contact the dude, right? So I email him, tell him about my 'young adult' novel and my "WIP" which is the mystery thingy I just did for NANO.

Then I get this email back:

RE: The WIP To begin, Carol, we would like to see the first three chapters, a two-paragraph synopsis and a two-paragraph author bio - all as non-zipped Word.doc attachments, please.

So...huh.

He's an 'agent' not a publishing company and he might not accept me anyway after he sees the story and even if he does there's still no guarantee it will get accepted by a publisher, and who knows what kind of contacts he has, but the door is just a tiny bit more open than it was before, right?

And PS. I suck at synopsis. Yikes