Written Whispers

Well, I’ve just sent an article out for submission and I’m hoping for the best. Someday I’d really like to get into freelancing or any sort of job in fact that allows me to write on a frequent basis (and doesn’t require much lifting) but I often wonder if I have anything in me to write about other than stories and poetry. I know I could easily write about foster care or all my many blessed issues but who really wants to hear about that stuff? Isn’t there enough depression in the world as is? If I want to write about that I’ll do it on my own time so I can help people but I doubt I can make money off of it.

I’m writing articles to put on a site called Constant Content and perhaps make a little cash on the side. The first, and as of yet only, time I submitted an article it was rejected. Apparently my style doesn’t quite fit in their guidelines. The subject I had chosen was somewhere along the lines of spirituality, a topic I care for deeply and consider myself adept at writing about.

Later that night I went through their site and though they have a section for spiritual related writing- it’s thin. What they seem to accept more often than not is technical style writing so I decided to try something different.

It took me a couple of days to figure out that I do know about something that I can write about (that’s useful to the general public). I’ve been running my own community based web site for almost two years now. I started from scratch, self teaching myself HTML, the evilness of Java, PHP, and CSS. Eventually I worked my way up to using programs like Joomla and Drupal. I noticed that articles about web design tend to go fairly well so I’ve tried my hand at it. It was a bit dull to write but slightly satisfying to write about something I know- not the usual for me as I almost always have to do tons of research during my story writing.

I wrote an article on the very basics of HTML. It’s extremely short, not even 500 words and I’m hoping the format (bullet points) holds up during the submission process otherwise it’s going to look like a mass of gobligook.

Wish me luck all. I know it’s not the same as submitting to a magazine. It’s just a place to put articles and hope someone buys them, that’s the real acceptance point. Still, I’d really like them to approve my submission. It just takes me one step closer. I figure if I can get some of my technical writing (that’s what it’s called right?) out there then I might have a better chance with some of my other writing. I can hope, and hey maybe I’ll find a niche I didn’t know I had and learn to write the boring stuff really well.

You never know!

Here- have some quotes I enjoy.

"One cannot truly understand and appreciate the light until they have been submerged in darkness." -Me

"Life’s a journey not a destination." -Aerosmith

"Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well." -Peter Ustinov

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo

"Indeed the pen mightier than the sword, for though the sword can pierce the heart; the pen is all that keeps it beating." -Me

"Even angels have bad days." -Unknown

"Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!" -Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love quotes and would love to here some of your favorites my fellow bloggers.

Alright, normally I won’t even read blogs promoting things or that are filled with adds and such because they feel like one long infomercial to me and trust me I get to watch plenty enough of those when Hunny and I can’t find the remote and the button on the TV is broken. Very uncool indeed.

Then again- if the post or blog is supporting a ’cause’ and aren’t trying to sell me something I’m more than likely to check it out even if it’s a cause I don’t personally support or believe in. I like to know what motivates other people and what they support. Call it people watching from afar with less stalker like qualities if you will. Anyway’s, I stopped by this site recently http://thingsbymike.com/ireply-movement/ and read a post they had written about the ‘iReply movement’. Here’s the gist of it:

If people give you comments and you believe in being active with your blog and possibly the blogging community you would generally reply back to comments and encourage others to do so. Doesn’t sound like that big of a deal right? Right- but I think it’s nice none the less so I decided to post something about it. :) I’m going to add their button to my blog here in a little bit now that I’ve finally found the time to get my template looking how I want it. I don’t think I could stand not to reply. I’m too long winded and enjoy typing too much to pass up an opportunity and I tend to give long responses if I can.

Or at least you don’t know all of these. I’m sure some of you out there know one or two. :) The list starts from the least secret fact about me to the most.

1. I honestly believe in Faeries. To me they are very real beings to be treated with respect and caution during the best of times.
2. Even with all the opportunities and offers, and despite the fact that not many people told me it was a bad thing, I have never once done drugs -or- handled them in my entire life.
3. People seriously scare me. They make me nervous and paranoid.
4. I have Scoliosis and one hip that is quite noticeable higher than the other. I am very self conscious of this.
5. I don’t go by my birth name even in real life do to spiritual beliefs. Outside the Internet in the world we call reality I go by the name [has been removed]. I spell it like that because my birth name is [has been removed] (reverse all the letters so that the F is in front, I’m writing it backwards to keep it from being picked up by search engines). It’s one of a kind, literally. In the culture where the language is from they don’t name their children after flowers, and it is indeed a flower. I have never found it in any name directory nor will I as it is not considered a name.
6. I once shop lifted bras from Walmart when in foster care.
7. I like everything about sex. *blushes profusely*
8. I often fear having some mental defect which would be warranted considering family history. On the other end of the scale I often wonder if I’m a hypochondriac as it seems like there is always something wrong with me.
9. I started to develop the beginning of a drinking problem I was 15. I have not drank for almost two years now.
10. I used to have a problem with self abuse.

That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Thank goodness. Now, I dare you fellow blog writers to write your own 10 facts.