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Day 8: work
8 Oct 2020 07:32 pmI have, right now, three "jobs": my tor.com column, my Patreon, and my fiction. I'm pretty much always doing something for one of those things. I've been reading books like candy, and over half of them are for my column. Sometimes I'm reading books for market research/comps. Sometimes, I just read for fun. I'm re-reading a lot of articles from the "linguistics articles" folder on my computer for my Patreon and taking notes on them so I have things I can reference relatively quickly or draw on as I write.
That's the down side of being a freelancer/writer/self-employed person: you're always working on something.
When I saw my mom on Sunday, she asked what I'm doing for work/money, because I'm not actually gainfully employed, of course. "Writing stuff for about $100 a month and hoping to sell this novel I wrote" isn't an answer, and "living off the money in my bank account" isn't, either, though both are true. (I am extremely fortunate not to have to pay rent, or at least rent commensurate with this general area, because I would be super fucked in metro DC. So my main expenses right now are food, hulu, and fitbit premium.) Fortunately, I was contacted for a freelance contract in transcription that's supposed to go until the end of the year, $16/hour up to 10 hrs/week. Not a *lot* of money, but it's better than zero money. And more than I'm spending on expenses of living, especially since I've finally got 90% of the furniture stuff I was looking for.
I have an idea for a nanowrimo project, but it still needs a lot of work before I can start. 23 days to plan, so here we go.
That's the down side of being a freelancer/writer/self-employed person: you're always working on something.
When I saw my mom on Sunday, she asked what I'm doing for work/money, because I'm not actually gainfully employed, of course. "Writing stuff for about $100 a month and hoping to sell this novel I wrote" isn't an answer, and "living off the money in my bank account" isn't, either, though both are true. (I am extremely fortunate not to have to pay rent, or at least rent commensurate with this general area, because I would be super fucked in metro DC. So my main expenses right now are food, hulu, and fitbit premium.) Fortunately, I was contacted for a freelance contract in transcription that's supposed to go until the end of the year, $16/hour up to 10 hrs/week. Not a *lot* of money, but it's better than zero money. And more than I'm spending on expenses of living, especially since I've finally got 90% of the furniture stuff I was looking for.
I have an idea for a nanowrimo project, but it still needs a lot of work before I can start. 23 days to plan, so here we go.
