I'm Free
It's been a busy week on many counts.
First, I got laid off from my job on Monday. It was not a surprise. Ever since my show ended in December I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm relieved--actually--that it finally did. I believe they were waiting to see how the replacement show was going to be produced, and it appears, now, that it will be produced without the need for someone in my capacity. I'm relieved to not have to go to work anymore when there is nothing to do. I am sad to have lost my job--I did love it, and sad too, not to be in daily contact with my friends, some of whom I've known so long (thirty-two years) it's really like they are family. I'll just have to be back from time to time, and hopefully there will be some daily hire opportunities because for sure I will also miss the paycheck!
It has taken me much longer than it should have but I finally finished the damn synopsis to the current WIP. I had actually put off writing it almost as long as a person could, but then I went and won one of the Barbara Samuel critiques, and she said 50 pages including a synopsis . . . which meant I had to come up with one because I definitely want someone with her writing goddessness to vet it for me.
So, the synopsis is in the mail along with the first five chapters (they are short). Next, I finish the book. Not much more to write, so hopefully all will be done by the end of next week and then I shall start submitting. Although . . . I'm not sure how I feel about submitting before I get Barbara's feedback. Then again, if I send a query and five pages it could take agents a while to get back to me. Judging by the agent blogs I frequent, just about everybody is behind in their query reading right now.
Still, I'd like to get some submissions out before National, especially now that I have become a full time writer. I'd like to stay this way for as long as possible.
In other news, the WT is home! Twenty-three countries and at least 10,000 photographs later, twelve pounds lighter, and about an inch taller he is a beautiful sight, and I'm happy to not be working the day job so that I can spend time with him before he goes off to college in September. Here for less than twenty-four hours, he's already got a job, and World Traveler morphs back into Coffee Man, just like that! What a super hero. :)
ETA: Apparently he won't be Coffee Man after all, but Book Shelving Man instead.
First, I got laid off from my job on Monday. It was not a surprise. Ever since my show ended in December I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm relieved--actually--that it finally did. I believe they were waiting to see how the replacement show was going to be produced, and it appears, now, that it will be produced without the need for someone in my capacity. I'm relieved to not have to go to work anymore when there is nothing to do. I am sad to have lost my job--I did love it, and sad too, not to be in daily contact with my friends, some of whom I've known so long (thirty-two years) it's really like they are family. I'll just have to be back from time to time, and hopefully there will be some daily hire opportunities because for sure I will also miss the paycheck!
It has taken me much longer than it should have but I finally finished the damn synopsis to the current WIP. I had actually put off writing it almost as long as a person could, but then I went and won one of the Barbara Samuel critiques, and she said 50 pages including a synopsis . . . which meant I had to come up with one because I definitely want someone with her writing goddessness to vet it for me.
So, the synopsis is in the mail along with the first five chapters (they are short). Next, I finish the book. Not much more to write, so hopefully all will be done by the end of next week and then I shall start submitting. Although . . . I'm not sure how I feel about submitting before I get Barbara's feedback. Then again, if I send a query and five pages it could take agents a while to get back to me. Judging by the agent blogs I frequent, just about everybody is behind in their query reading right now.
Still, I'd like to get some submissions out before National, especially now that I have become a full time writer. I'd like to stay this way for as long as possible.
In other news, the WT is home! Twenty-three countries and at least 10,000 photographs later, twelve pounds lighter, and about an inch taller he is a beautiful sight, and I'm happy to not be working the day job so that I can spend time with him before he goes off to college in September. Here for less than twenty-four hours, he's already got a job, and World Traveler morphs back into Coffee Man, just like that! What a super hero. :)
ETA: Apparently he won't be Coffee Man after all, but Book Shelving Man instead.
posted by Gina Black at 5:05 PM
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6 Comments:
HUGS on getting laid off!! I hope you can be a fulltime writer for a long time, too.
And yay that WT is home!
Mary THANK YOU. I guess we could just say, "That's show biz." ;)
It truly couldn't have happened at a better time.
Hmm. That's some Independence Day present! Gina Black, full-time writer has a real nice ring to it. :-) Yay!! Best of luck with the critique and finishing the ms, Gina.
Much cheer.
For us I think it's only something like 25 years working together, but still...
Good luck with everything, God bless you and yes, I have real hope that we WILL work together again.
Love ya. :-)
I think you're going to be a fabulous full-time writer. Sometimes a push in the right direction is all we need, eh? :-)
What everyone else said.
And, you know, that "when a door closes a window opens" business too.
:)
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