Revising in earnest

I have good news to report. I have been working on revising my book every day. My general plan when I write is to go as fast as possible and fill in the blanks later and this is a slow process. But, it must be done.

I have also been writing for the freelance site. I seem to have slowed down in my output, so I have to work on that.

I bought the domain name: www.carolineifritz.com and will be setting up a commercial writing website. I am looking into different website hosts so watch this space!

Keep on keepin' on

Well, 2010 is upon us and it is time to create some goals to ignore. I would like to send my book out, decide what I am going to do about content writing, create a writing website, get over my fear of rejection and join the local writer's group.

I was looking at my book this past week and I have to say that I just don't get the point of it. What is the point? To tell a story of course. But so what? What about the story? Is it even worth telling? Or is this another way of devaluing my work. Apparently I thought enough about it before I wrote it to start writing it and sticking with it over all of these years. So I will keep on, keepin' on. I guess that is the theme of 2010.

Editing chapters

I finished chapter four and am working on chapter five. Like I said, I would like to finish by the end of the summer. I need a refresher from the self-editing book. I will have to make sure it is with me as I edit.

Sitcom screenplay

I finished my screenplay on the 7th and today I revised and sent it in. I have never entered a contest before and I am pretty excited. They are picking the winner at the end of September.

I have also been freelance writing 400 word articles for a website. I just received payment for them and that was pretty great. I have to travel for work this week, but when I get back, I am going to write more. It is a great, easy way to make money.

I also received an e-mail on writing informative books and was invited to send my resume in. Again, I don't have time at the moment because I have had to travel for work this past week and again next week. The pay is between $1,200 and $1,600 and the word count is 65,000 words. I will have to see on that one.

Besides the freelance writing, I am going to get to my book. My mom was just telling met that three people from my area just had romance novels published, so books are still being published. I would love to be able to send out my book by the end of the summer. Now there is a constant refrain!