Getting There

Start a blog and then do nothing with it. Not very sensible. Things on the personal front have been rather hectic this autumn, though, so that's the way it is, for a little while longer.

And then there are the deadlines...

It's a double-edged sword:

• More deadlines = more work = more income = YAY, DEADLINES!
• More deadlines = more work = less time for eating, sleeping, blogging = BOO, DEADLINES!

I'm trying out the Pomodoro Technique, after reading about it in Jenny Sundstedt's guest post on The Writing Bug. It's fascinating.

I'll write something. Soon. Really. Right after I get a chance to pee.

The Horror

I know this has nothing to do with writing, or editing, blah blah blah, but it's the day before Easter and I must say:
Peeps are the Devil's candy.
Don't believe me?

The Full Monty, Editorial Style

A little more than two years after hanging up my shingle as a full-time freelance editor and writer, I’m earning half again what I was making in corporate publishing. Also, I get to drink all the (top-notch) coffee, no one steals my egg sandwiches, and I work with a cat on my lap. Heaven, you say?

Well...yeah.

Granted, there are drawbacks. Self-employment tax. The whole feast-or-famine income cycle. Lack of human interaction. But you know, that’s why God made CPAs and Facebook.

So, how did a gal with a theatre degree (!) end up owning a freelance business? I’ll be answering that question in a post or two over at Kerrie Flanagan’s The Writing Bug. (Kerrie is the director of Northern Colorado Writers—a great organization.) If you’re a writer, what sort of info would be most useful to you? I’d like the posts to be as pertinent as possible.

Jump

After a (long) hiatus from blogging, I’m jumping back into the pool. Hey, the water’s not bad! Wait a minute. Why is it warmer right over here by you?

Never mind.

I intend the primary topic of this blog to be writing, editing, and all types of word-geekery. I’ll aim to stay on task, but I’m sure other stuff will leak in from time to time, because hey! I don’t write in a vacuum. Isn’t that what makes words so delicious? All that messy subtext and meaning oozing in and around and ... oh, watch where you’re stepping! Ew.

So, here’s what I do for a living: I play with words. How much fun is that? I started out as an in-house Web designer and assistant editor for a small environmental firm. I’ve also worked for a magazine publisher and for independent content providers. I hope to pass on some of the things I’ve learned, but I won’t ever name names or tell tales, so don’t ask me.

In 2008, I started a freelance writing and editing company. Much of what I now edit and write is technical—information technology, environmental, whatnot—or business related, but I also work with consumer fiction and nonfiction. I’m in the process of finishing a YA novel, while I scribble down ideas for the next ones on the back of envelopes. I drink a lot of coffee.

I have two lovely and invigorating children. They require so many things, like food, and shelter! So if the posting here gets a bit spotty from time to time, it’s probably because I’m off earning my keep. Complain all you want, I shall ignore it.

So have fun, poke around—I’ll be adding the names of some super-fab folks whose stuff I enjoy reading—and hand me that towel over there, would you? I can’t sit in here all day, my fingers are getting pruney.