december_solstice | One door closes, another one opens.

I try to apply this concept to every change in my life. Just because graduate school isn't going to happen, doesn't mean other things won't happen -- in fact, it means exactly that: SOMETHING ELSE WILL HAPPEN INSTEAD. I don't know what that something is.

A part of me thinks this is freedom. This is the universe's way of telling me you can now do something else -- maybe something you've been putting off, maybe something you've been wanting to do but didn't have the time or energy.

I've started many unfinished projects over the years. The two biggest projects were novel writing and building, launching and leading my own online writing workshops and crash courses. Ideally, I'd love to do both full time. I'd also love to blog. All of these avenues require a lot of work.

I have the time, but I cannot afford to do it. I need to generate a stable income to live. I have a bachelor's degree now. Again, the LOGICAL thing I should do and go out and get a job -- apply the 4 years of tears, sweat and heartache to an employer's benefit. How depressing.

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I'm slowly making an online periodical in Esperanto - if you want, you can write things for it and I can translate them (if you don't care to try learning Esperanto yourself). Then when/if a copy sells I can get you some percentage of the profit. Right now I have about 14 pages of my first issue, but I checked out another periodical that's published in the town I live in and THEY only had 8 pages so I think we'd be good. Since it's online publishing there's no start-up costs, and after enough issues are out there can be compilation issues grouped according to category ("handicrafts, recipes") that might sell better alone.

Right now I have stuff like "how to make skis from wood" "random recipes" "how the old calendar system worked" "how to translate your name into Swedish". People like that stuff, but they also want to know about things from all over the world and what daily life is like for someone in another country (memoirs) too. And they really like original fiction, songs, comics, etc. So you can basically write anything you want and I can stick it in.

I was waiting to work more on it until after I got someone to help me make content because it's just really tiring, coming up with everything in it on your own. Also because I need to think of a name.

This sounds like a lot of fun! (Even if it doesn't generate much income for a while.) I would be interested in writing for it. Also great motivation to attempt to learn another language. I'm looking for exposure and expanding my skills.

I specialized in creative non-fiction in my undergrad, but I also have some personal and professional experience in all kinds of areas in regards to writing. Professionally, I've taught online classes in creative non-fiction (personal essays, memoirs, ect.) I also did quite a bit of research writing. I do/did a bit of blogging. I also wrote and published a YA fantasy-fiction novelette.

I'm really digging Live Journal. I can't believe it took me this long to check it out.

Seriously, you're a deacon of information. If you haven't already gotten your work out there, you should. You write very simply and eloquently, which is not easy for a lot of writers.

Esperanto is really fast to learn too! I can teach you a lot better than the shitty lessons that are generally out there, I'm almost done writing lessons for it anyway.

I love LJ, it's just sad that so many people have abandoned it for Tumblr. I really hate Tumblr, lol. I tried it for a couple years and just had one bad experience after another - no fandom people are actually making fandom stuff, I post my opinions and I get hatespam, I post explanations of something and I get hatespam because I didn't write every single little detail on the subject... People follow me but never write anything to me or even write in reblogs, and so they might as well be bots. Sigh!!

I'd have stuff published if I could just get off my butt and finish anything!! I'm working on like three different language textbooks, memoirs, this periodical, and probably a ton of stuff that I've forgotten. I keep making projects that are too big for myself, and should be content to just publish a fourth of a book or something but nooo...

I only write simply because in these years of being abroad I haven't been talking to English native speakers, so then "simplifying" everything I say and write becomes first-nature. (Eventually I also just started getting angry at modern English - why do we need so many words? WE DON'T!) I forget a lot of words now too, stuff like "trailer" which just doesn't come up in daily life much. My spelling's gotten a lot worse too.... haha. I also keep getting times where people misunderstand me so I keep trying harder and harder to make what I mean really clear.

Oh I'm also working on some dictionaries that I can publish in who knows how long from now:

A 1930's American Slang dictionary (words taken from Hollywood movies - before I can "complete" it, I have to fix the formatting and find lots of books to read so my sources aren't only Hollywood)

An Indonesian-Esperanto dictionary (I recently started studying Indonesian so it came naturally)

An English-Esperanto dictionary (plenty exist but they're bad)

I have a mini book on runes (Old Norse writing system) that I want to finish someday.

I'm trying to get my wife to make a small book on how to write "Tolkien English", I don't really know because I don't care about Tolkien but she said that while reading fic she noticed that they all use this older English wrong, stuff that comes naturally to her because it still exists in Swedish.... Yeah, so it's just tons of unfinished projects *sobs*

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