the life of a freelance writer and editor

[wordsrmylife]

Ah, the life of a freelance writer and editor! 
At my desk by 8:30 am (since this was a rainy summer day). Check email. Write my weekly column for the local paper. Break for a walk to the post office and corner grocery. Start work on a short free-lance editing job by 11. Work for an hour. Break for lunch with 17-year-old wanna-be-writer daughter.

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[eclectic_writer]

I think that'd be pretty neat actually. Used to be a dream of mine, to write for a living and go off to find stories. Unfortunately life intervened and, well, I'm very much NOT doing that. Except on my free time, where I'm the writer I always dreamed of being. Now to just be a published *author*. :D

[wordsrmylife]

It is pretty neat to finally be a full-time freelancer. The funny thing is, while I go off and find some stories (or stumble over them while I'm doing something else), I've also got clients coming to me to write web content or articles for their in-house publication. That makes life much easier, because I don't need to be submitting queries madly. Of course, I do send them out, but not with quite the same pressure.

Life does intervene. Been there. But when I was at a point where it was stay with the steady job (that had no benefits--luckily I have a patron, in the form of a husband, who provides those), or move into working for myself, I had to take the chance to be on my own. While I'm still building my business, things are definitely moving in the right direction. So far, so good. I'm enjoying it while it's here.

Still, I do wish I had more time to write fiction. It's that move to "author" that I'm working toward.