Actually, I don’t even think that’s a thing, but it made me giggle and so here we are.
It’s been almost a year since my last blog entry (I guess more specifically it’s nine months as the last entry was in June 2022) and, honestly, not a whole lot has changed. I still dislike my day job, but my coworkers are pretty cool and now that we have an official somebody in charge, the schedule’s working out well–it’s also only like 8 min from home and that’s if I catch all the lights between here and there red. I just wished it paid a little more–I know I can probably find jobs that pay me around 3 to 5 dollars more than what I’m getting now, but at what cost? Sometimes money doesn’t make it all work (it just makes it work easier). So right now I’m considering other ways to pull in just a little more cash every month, but haven’t figured it out yet.
I’m still writing stories. For Camp Nanowrimo (v. April 2023) I am going to be working on The Coin has Two Faces which is the sequel to Ashigo’s Shadow. I’m also back at work on my Dungeons & Dragons story since the D & D Direct broadcast sent my interest circling back around to it. However, the D & D story is going to be a background program to C2F (my personal acronym for the story–AS=Ashigo’s Shadow, GK=Girl who would be King) for April, maybe it’ll be front & center for May. Also, one of my best friends has gotten to a place she can start being able to find some time again to continue writing (or right now, rewrite) a collaborative story/RP we started in like 2008–it been fun to revisit some old character friends, but a lot has changed and we’ve both had a lot of ideas to revise it and make it better.
I was playing with starting up a blog entry editing service. In which an individual sends me their blog entry, price is $10/per 1,000 words (minimum payment would be $10) and I go through and fix typos, minor grammatical errors, and spelling. I don’t touch the content. I don’t make suggestions or rewrite anything. I just literally go through and fix the spelling and simple grammar. There are so many times when I go to a blog and read the entry and I find some minor errors that could’ve easily been caught if it was read just a little more carefully. I’d limit it to something like 5 blog entries a week and if that seems to go well, I’d contemplate expanding it a bit–like just a basic edit of a manuscript (grammar, spelling, looking for missing words and typos) at the same price ($10 per 1,000 words (minimum of $10), that means if you have an 80K manuscript it would be about $800 and I’d only do one of those every quarter). Again this would be super basic edits, I wouldn’t change anything about the work or even really give feedback on it–literally just be like oh, you left it as ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’, you forgot a comma here, oh you don’t want to “bare a burden” you want to “bear a burden”. Y’know very simple stuff that we as writers sometimes miss because we knew what we meant when we wrote it so we don’t realize we left out a couple words or we used the wrong homonym for the situation, etc. or the spell check didn’t catch that you used the wrong word. Just that one extra pair of eyes to look it over before putting it up on the internet to see.
Of course to do that convincingly, I have to pay very close attention to what I’m putting up on my own blog.
The YouTube channel I mentioned a couple entries ago? It’s still going and I am hoping to launch it in June, but that’s gonna depend on whether or not I can get all my ducks in a row, etc. I’ll post about that project a bit more next month (I’m going to try and keep up with blogging here at least once or twice a month, we’ll see how it goes).
Take care 🙂
♥ Myriai
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