Quilling. My friend Louise brought some quilling to work on during lunch one day, and that was the first time I had ever seen the craft. You take little strips of paper, roll them up, and somehow twist and curl them into decorative designs. Quilling is now on the list of things to do with my letters. I think this will turn out looking very pretty.
Once I manage to learn how to quill that is. Apparently it is a skill.
Like collage.
See title. Whee.
I’m accruing more rejection letters. One of my projects, the tragedy/comedy masks, is proving more difficult than I thought. I have pre-made masks and am pasting torn off sections of the rejection slips onto either mask. Happy/neutral parts go onto the comedy mask and sad bits go onto the tragedy mask. After each layer I add some watercolor.
This is my first time trying something like this, and while I didn’t assume it would look amazing I also wasn’t expecting…this. It’s going to need a lot of glitter and shiny bits added to it. Hopefully the glitter will distract the viewer’s eyes from the hot mess the masks are rapidly becoming.
Or rather, not so rapidly, considering that my last post was a few months ago…
Pics to come.
Once I become brave enough to record this horror for posterity.
Four submissions sent out for a sum total of…four stories submitted. The sum total of my finished works. Two thoughts came to me after I finished sending everything out.
1. Sending 10,000 words into the space between acceptance and rejection is a really nice feeling.
2. If, hope beyond hope, they all get accepted, I would make enough to cover my monthly car payment.
Now, it does need to be said that I’m not really in this for the money. There are far easier ways to make an extra buck than to open a vein over the keyboard. However, my subconscious is a tricky little beast and it is absolutely enamored by the act of attaching my writing goals to more concrete goals.
So the goal is to treat my writing like a side job. Which means every month submitting around 10k words worth of story, or enough to pay a big bill once you figure out the cents per word of the market.
The side effect is that hopefully I get more stories finished, instead of letting the languish while I polish them to a highly edited sheen.
