I just submitted my first story to a magazine for publication. I am so far out of my comfort zone I will need a GPS to relocate it. It's not just that having something published would validate my skills as a writer, it would make me feel a lot better about all the time I waste writing if it were actually a marketable product. My goal is to submit something somewhere every week until I run out of material. That should not take long. The story I sent was of the human interest/true/Christian/humor genre so I submitted it to a Christian/senior/90% freelance/pays actual $ magazine.
I have also been "honing my craft" for my pretend profession by attending classes. This week I took a lunch hour comma class. I've had this suspicion that I am overcommaing and I would like to overcome that. It turns out I have been doing them correctly for the most part but now I have the comma rules to know why I've been doing them correctly. The next lunch hour class is on getting organized to write. I'm not sure if I am writer enough to need the class, it's not as if editors are making demands, but anything that makes writing easier sounds good to me. My college major was in Easy. I am not sure where to go from here with my writing, even in this blog.
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