Every knitter I have ever known in my entire life (and I've known good many knitters) keeps their yarn in plastic tubs in the basement. Including myself, when I had a basement. What did knitters do before plastic was invented, I wonder?
Glad things are getting set up for you all.
argh, Theresa. Hope things get settled for you soon.
I've moved twice in 6 months, from Maine to South Carolina, and then from one side of town to the other (From the city to a nice place I can have fiber animals again- goats and sheep). I've been in the new place almost 4 weeks now, and still haven't figured out where everything is that I had packed. I didn't even think I owned that much stuff. So here I am, wishing you energy and chocolate, and an ever diminishing pile of boxes to unpack.
Hope the move goes well and without incident! Glad you found something more comfortable.
I graduated from homeschool, and, ornery female cuss that I can be, didn't want to negate all the hard work I did there by taking the test for a GED so that I was "legal." It just seemed fundamentally wrong that I legally graduated, according to the requirements of the state, but that my diploma meant nothing.
Because of my cussedness, I couldn't go to college to earn a degree, but I read everything of interest to me that I can get my hands on, in between bouts of dealing with my children who have just discovered the joys of screaming at each other.
Since I am trying to break into writing, the things I study now have direct bearing on my "job." (my job being sitting in front of a blank computer screen, drinking obscene amounts of hot tea, and hoping that my muse will wake up sometime this year.)
So I guess that means that I am working in the field I trained/am training for. :)
I didn't want you to think I was promoting these scam artists, James. Not at all! But I do know people who have been burned and chalked it up as a learning experience and pressed on. And I did have Good in "". ;)
The thing that bugs me about people being "victimized" by poetry.com and others, is that there is so much information out on the web and in bookstores. It's pretty easy to figure out if something is a scam or not. People should work harder to educate themselves before submitting their work. It doesn't make the predators less guilty, of course, but the artist has some responsibility in the matter as well.
Those poetry scams are the worst. The only "good" I can see in them is that they encourage new writers with a "credit." Eventually almost everyone finds out it is a scam, but maybe it helped someone to have the courage to keep on writing.
Even if their writing stinks and is unpublishable elsewhere, following a long held dream is a great thing.
Anyone who publishes should be ready for disagreement and scrutiny. Might not be pleasant, but it is a fact of life. And if you are publishig erroneous material, get ready to be picked apart like a Thanksgiving turkey, lol.
I can't imagine giving someone advice to lie. That's just so BAD.
I've been wondering about the idea of sending partials. The very thought of it scares the life out of me, even knowing I can finish a book quickly, even knowing it might be more than a year before hearing back on the sample chapters. But I know people who have sold books on a proposal, or are contracted to write for a series.
My own comfort dictates that I finish a novel before submitting it for review. My question is, do you ever have a more established writer send in a partial, get a contract, and then he suddenly finds that for whatever reason he can't finish the book? I have nightmares about that, lol.
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