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Not freelancing
It feels curiously liberating, not freelancing.
Towards the end of last year, I was invited to submit an article for this publisher, more or less to test my mettle. I got the reply that my writing was flowery, and that if I inundated their monthly pet magazine with articles which didn't have the flowery they might ask me if I could join them again next year. A very good compliment. One I have taken to heart.
I have begun by eliminating all the flowery from my novel, which takes priority.
Nothing should puzzle an editor more than a writer who disdains money as a motive for getting published. Besides, their demands were high, even for me - typically 80,000 words per month or so.
If I could do 80k a month, I'd be writing my own novels, one after the other, and probably getting them published with one hell of a backlog of books awaiting a green light.
So, basically, no. Nice compliment. No, thank you.
Towards the end of last year, I was invited to submit an article for this publisher, more or less to test my mettle. I got the reply that my writing was flowery, and that if I inundated their monthly pet magazine with articles which didn't have the flowery they might ask me if I could join them again next year. A very good compliment. One I have taken to heart.
I have begun by eliminating all the flowery from my novel, which takes priority.
Nothing should puzzle an editor more than a writer who disdains money as a motive for getting published. Besides, their demands were high, even for me - typically 80,000 words per month or so.
If I could do 80k a month, I'd be writing my own novels, one after the other, and probably getting them published with one hell of a backlog of books awaiting a green light.
So, basically, no. Nice compliment. No, thank you.