It’s official!

Yup! I is officially a paid writer. *beeg grins* Who’da thunk it? And also – I forgot to mention, that I also have a piece in the current Alaska Women Speak titled “To blog, or not to blog” which I may toss up here as well. While not a paid piece, it’s uber cool because my article is right next to Nana ‘s article on the same subject. She’s a regular contributer there, and well to be next to her? It’s a place of distinction, says me!

I’m following in Schnozz ‘s footsteps too, and started keeping track of word count. While she’s writing the Next Great American Novel (you ARE and you know it!), my word count will include anything and everything – except blog posts. *L* Blog posts are easy, vomitous, spit up, stream (almost typed scream there – works) of consciousness writing. Aka – not very noteworthy. But everything else; Sourdough articles, random private essays, other articles, stories, blah blah blah – all them i’ll count. My goal? to write 250,000 words this year.

No, that does not make it a NY resolution! It’s a goal. And an achievable one at that. I may even break out my novel Anything but Ordinary and go about revisiting and revising it. and start resubbing it. (don’t mind that sound – that’s just me in a panic.)

We’ll see how it goes. Right now, it’s just

Hey RP! SammyJ challenges YOU to join in too. Nothing forces my Word Count totals to skyrocket like competition with you!