I've found the posts here about writing online very interesting. $5 for 500 words is a profoundly sobering reality. I've written for print in the past and found the sums paid totally insufficient and they were 50 to 100 times better. I don't have the confidence to tackle this kind of assignment any longer and recently turned down a proffered book review for our national newspaper. My body is simply not reliable enough and my brain began to hurt just contemplating it.
Nonetheless, it is something that can be done lying down with my laptop on my lapdesk so must be considered and I do but my cognitive issues are such that writing is an exhausting, sometimes excruciating, undertaking.
Also, given my present circumstances -- virtually all of my interaction with others is written communication online -- I'm all written out socializing. Were I to write professionally again, I could not write simply to communicate any longer and writing is isolating and lonely enough at the best of times.
How do others who write reconcile these challenges?
peace
Nonetheless, it is something that can be done lying down with my laptop on my lapdesk so must be considered and I do but my cognitive issues are such that writing is an exhausting, sometimes excruciating, undertaking.
Also, given my present circumstances -- virtually all of my interaction with others is written communication online -- I'm all written out socializing. Were I to write professionally again, I could not write simply to communicate any longer and writing is isolating and lonely enough at the best of times.
How do others who write reconcile these challenges?
peace