Dear Blog,
Where have you been?
My new career as a freelance writer has been coming along swimmingly. Not only have I come to terms with my awkward love of puns, but I've also put it into action by deciding to name my company (can one person be a company?) Basic Human Writes. This has also caused me to own my first domain name (basichumanwrites.com). Currently, it is a generic "This domain has been registered" page. But one day, it will be a real website. If any of you also wants to own a domain, I happen to know for a fact that reproductivewrites.com is still available.
I also have a phone interview with my first-ever prospective client tomorrow. This is not nearly as glamorous as it sounds, and frankly makes me want to vomit. Perhaps this was a bad idea.
I can't wait to see what happens when I get past Chapter 5 in my "I want to be a freelance writer" book. Hopefully less nausea.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Best 12 Inches in the Midwest
Hey guys,
Just wanted to check in with you all and see how you're doing. I'm definitely still on college-time since I see September as a time of new starts. I don't know if that's completely accurate for everyone on this blog, but there are a couple of us who are starting a school year or a new job in a new city, or like me, are just beginning the hunt for a real job.
In the meantime though, before I find this "job," I'm going to fill my time with settling back in to St. Louis, doing cultural things (last night, I went to the Great Forest Park Balloon Glow and had sweet steak-on-a-stick, hence the title), scrapbooking South America (half-joking), and actually doing some writing. Man, I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
I also read this article today I thought yall might be interested in, considering what close ties most of us still have with universities and the academic life. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21writingprof-t.html?pagewanted=1
Speaking of, Shana, why didn't Harvard hire me? Nerds.
That's all I got for now. Hope to hear from you all soon!
Just wanted to check in with you all and see how you're doing. I'm definitely still on college-time since I see September as a time of new starts. I don't know if that's completely accurate for everyone on this blog, but there are a couple of us who are starting a school year or a new job in a new city, or like me, are just beginning the hunt for a real job.
In the meantime though, before I find this "job," I'm going to fill my time with settling back in to St. Louis, doing cultural things (last night, I went to the Great Forest Park Balloon Glow and had sweet steak-on-a-stick, hence the title), scrapbooking South America (half-joking), and actually doing some writing. Man, I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
I also read this article today I thought yall might be interested in, considering what close ties most of us still have with universities and the academic life. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21writingprof-t.html?pagewanted=1
Speaking of, Shana, why didn't Harvard hire me? Nerds.
That's all I got for now. Hope to hear from you all soon!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Just Below the Border
Hola,
I´ve been in South America since August 9 and am now onto my third country: Ecuador, which is turning out to be something of an enigma for me. Loved Chile and Peru, but can´t quite figure this place out.
Anyway, I just wanted to check in. Congratulations on the NYC jobs-slash-school, guys! And you were freaking out, pshaw. I have no clue what I´m doing when I get back stateside, considering I thought I basically had a job in the Harvard English department, but they failed to ever finalize the offer...or call me back...after months...not a good sign. But I´d like to keep this thing going and read some writing, please.
And if you´re bored in these new endeavors, feel free to take a look at the little blog I´ve had while I´ve been down here: katemoulton.blogspot.com. I only have a few entries but at least one if hefty and can do the procrastination job.
Hope all is well!
paz,
Katie M
I´ve been in South America since August 9 and am now onto my third country: Ecuador, which is turning out to be something of an enigma for me. Loved Chile and Peru, but can´t quite figure this place out.
Anyway, I just wanted to check in. Congratulations on the NYC jobs-slash-school, guys! And you were freaking out, pshaw. I have no clue what I´m doing when I get back stateside, considering I thought I basically had a job in the Harvard English department, but they failed to ever finalize the offer...or call me back...after months...not a good sign. But I´d like to keep this thing going and read some writing, please.
And if you´re bored in these new endeavors, feel free to take a look at the little blog I´ve had while I´ve been down here: katemoulton.blogspot.com. I only have a few entries but at least one if hefty and can do the procrastination job.
Hope all is well!
paz,
Katie M
Thursday, August 21, 2008
So now I have a job ....
.... as en editorial assistant for the Public Relations Society of America (random). In New York. Stacy, want to meet up?
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Forget "new" career. I need ANY career.
Here's my litany of excuses. i need to get out of my house. I am still looking for a job - desperately, anything, hopefully in New York (I'm not sure why I'm so drawn there, I just am). However, right now I'm in a suburb of Boston ... without a car, because i was rear-ended on the highway. It's impossible to write while home - I know that sounds like a lame excuse, but due to how my house is set up, my mom is constantly peering over my shoulder ("what's that?").
I need a job.
But, the problem is very similar to the whole blank-screen (page) problem: when you have nothing, nothing seems to come. So, ironically, when I have the time to write, I'm too anxious and claustrophobic and preoccupied to put together a single sentence. Seriously, I'm even jotting down ideas in bullet points.
And I know this is an excuse. I know that I could carve out sometime, somehow, to write. But in order for me to really get anything out, I need to feel like I can really focus, like I have room to breathe. Therefore, I need my own space ... but, in order to get said space, i need a job. See a pattern?
I'm going to go back to monster.com and feel sorry for myself. Tom, good work with the freelancing - that's something I would love to do (am going to do, to put it in a more optimistic frame) someday.
...Thanks for listening to my whining. Sorry.
PS. I just spell-checked this, and there were no spelling errors found. That's never happened to me. Unless I did something like spell "but," "bust" ... which has happened. In the title of papers, even. Just wanted to end my post on a positive note.
I need a job.
But, the problem is very similar to the whole blank-screen (page) problem: when you have nothing, nothing seems to come. So, ironically, when I have the time to write, I'm too anxious and claustrophobic and preoccupied to put together a single sentence. Seriously, I'm even jotting down ideas in bullet points.
And I know this is an excuse. I know that I could carve out sometime, somehow, to write. But in order for me to really get anything out, I need to feel like I can really focus, like I have room to breathe. Therefore, I need my own space ... but, in order to get said space, i need a job. See a pattern?
I'm going to go back to monster.com and feel sorry for myself. Tom, good work with the freelancing - that's something I would love to do (am going to do, to put it in a more optimistic frame) someday.
...Thanks for listening to my whining. Sorry.
PS. I just spell-checked this, and there were no spelling errors found. That's never happened to me. Unless I did something like spell "but," "bust" ... which has happened. In the title of papers, even. Just wanted to end my post on a positive note.
Monday, July 28, 2008
My New Career
Is it awful that I have been writing, but not posting to our awesome blog? Is it terrible that I hate the word "awesome" but use it anyway? I'm sure I have your forgiveness for both.
My latest misguided plan is to become a freelance writer. I'm not sure I have enough of a business mindset, but I do own a book entitled "Getting Started as a Freelance Writer." Let's face it: I'm 99% of the way there.
My latest misguided plan is to become a freelance writer. I'm not sure I have enough of a business mindset, but I do own a book entitled "Getting Started as a Freelance Writer." Let's face it: I'm 99% of the way there.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Branching out
Hey Tom, how do I invite another person to join the blog? I can't figure it out.
By the way, I haven't seen anyone post any new writing or comments on the docs in a very long time (not that I have either, but) I'm anxiously awaiting more stuff from y'all.
I haven't really been writing, except in journal form, but I've been reading a lot, like Kyra. I'm a little ADD right now and can't stick to one book, so I'm in the middle of The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Death in the Andes by Llosa, Frommer's Guide to South America, and something called "How Proust Can Change Your Life."
I also go in and read slush at River Styx lit journal every week, so I get to read about a million pieces by unknown (at least to me) writers. Sometimes reading the slush pile makes me feel good about my own work, and sometimes it's dismal thinking that I'm just one of the middling masses. Sometimes reading at River Styx makes me sick to my stomach-- like the other week when one of the editors, upon hearing of my upcoming trip to South America, decided to read aloud a long, detailed poem about the gruesome life cycle of a parasite in the human body and its emergence through the skin as a teeming, bloody boil. (My dreams have been tainted, now so have yours.)
Speaking of travel and disease, I've got to head out to my immunization appointment now-- no Hep A, B, typhoid, yellow fever or rabies for me! Hopefully my writing arm isn't too sore...
By the way, I haven't seen anyone post any new writing or comments on the docs in a very long time (not that I have either, but) I'm anxiously awaiting more stuff from y'all.
I haven't really been writing, except in journal form, but I've been reading a lot, like Kyra. I'm a little ADD right now and can't stick to one book, so I'm in the middle of The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Death in the Andes by Llosa, Frommer's Guide to South America, and something called "How Proust Can Change Your Life."
I also go in and read slush at River Styx lit journal every week, so I get to read about a million pieces by unknown (at least to me) writers. Sometimes reading the slush pile makes me feel good about my own work, and sometimes it's dismal thinking that I'm just one of the middling masses. Sometimes reading at River Styx makes me sick to my stomach-- like the other week when one of the editors, upon hearing of my upcoming trip to South America, decided to read aloud a long, detailed poem about the gruesome life cycle of a parasite in the human body and its emergence through the skin as a teeming, bloody boil. (My dreams have been tainted, now so have yours.)
Speaking of travel and disease, I've got to head out to my immunization appointment now-- no Hep A, B, typhoid, yellow fever or rabies for me! Hopefully my writing arm isn't too sore...
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