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If awakening the writer within had been my goal, I achieved it with flying colors. I've been writing a few hours a day. I just haven't been writing for Soulcast. I haven't really been 'blogging' in the classic sense of just talking about my life or my day or my plans. I've been writing topic based articles for another site as well as short stories for an online contest. Plus I've been working on some ideas for novels. I should focus on that last one more than I do, but I have trouble focusing on long range projects when the quick and dirty writing has such instant gratification.

One of the chatrooms I go to has a person that constantly comments and 'hello to the person who's other name is purple who is in disguise here.' The funny thing is, they don't mean me. But it's distracting because every time he says 'purple' I say 'huh, what'?

I'm not sure if anyone noticed that I've hardly been here. I'm not hbc or sw after all.


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  • MikoFabulous said on Sep 23, 2006....
    I'm an aspiring web writer myself. I'd like to know what site you are writing "topic based articles for" and other websites that will showcase up and coming writers of short stories and memoirs.

    I'm trying to write a book, so I understand your frustration with a long term project. I learned that I cannot simply force myself to write x pages a day or spend x hours writing my book. But I do have to force myself to write at times when I feel extremely emotionally charged, at no matter what hour, for however long it takes to get the story out.

    So I'd like to know what other sites you publish your work on?
  • silverwhisper said on Sep 24, 2006....
    actually, i've noticed. i'm glad to hear that you're writing is progressing--that's great!

    ed
  • JadeLondon said on Sep 24, 2006....
    Actually, I have noticed your absence, too. And you aren't the only one being silent.

    But--I wish you luck in your endeavor. You must be so excited (I know I would be).
  • purple said on Sep 24, 2006....
    So much for being anonymous, but the anonymous thing isn't serving me well anyway. I find you cannot hide and promote yourself at the same time.
    I've been writing here: http://hubpages.com/link/?url%2Fprofile%2FMoonmaiden&title=Moonmaiden+-+Best+Hubs because you not only get google adsense, but you can also link to ebay and amazon in their affiliate program.
    I'm not getting paid to write there per se, but I'm writing the best stuff I can, and when a publisher wants to see my style, I'll send them there. So I'm using it like a portfolio.

    Or if you really want to sell your stuff, I recommend http://constant-content.com/. You can set your own prices for each thing you write. You can set a price for one time original content, or sell the same piece to multiple buyers for a lesser fee per use.

    Another writer on hubpages links a bunch of other places freelance writers can look into here: [url]http://hubpages.com/hub/Freelance_Writing_Jobs
    [/url]

    Writing for free will hone your skills, but eventually you want to get paid, don't you?
  • Alyss said on Sep 24, 2006....
    I had noticed you weren't posting so frequently but I've had a bad case of writer's block myself so haven't been writing much myself either and assumed it was just one of those things.

    Good luck with your venture.
  • missb said on Sep 24, 2006....
    Actually I didn't really notice, but that's because I haven't been spending much time in SC lately :/

    Arghhh....it's 4.30 in the morning and I need to sleep...

    Oh btw, best of luck with your novel projects :)

    Cheers!

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