Writing Of Writing

To continue along my backlog of Terran exploits:

Writing of writing, as I was yesterday, things are looking positive for my having some writing, and an illustration, published in an hard copy anthology over in the States. I won’t be paid for my work but the publication is legitimate and the fellow behind it seems to genuinely like the work of mine that he has seen so far. So, hopefully, I shall be in print soon! Small cookies, of course, but it’s a step up from merely being published on the internet.

Not that there’s anything wrong with internet publishing – I’ve done some myself and shall no doubt do some more – but I’ve never been all that enthused by it. I suppose this is because it’s pretty darn easy to do – whether on a 'net-page of one’s own or by having a piece ‘published’ on someone-else’s site, it’s less significant to me because it’s considerably easier for someone to ‘print’ your wordings on the internet than for them to produce, or get produced, an actual, physical document. If someone is going to put in the effort to produce a professional, or even semi-professional, hardcopy volume of writings and they want to include some of your own work then, well, that seems to me to be a bit more significant, is all.

So, yeah, it’s a nice little recent seedling in my life, which shall hopefully come to fruition soon.

…Tune in tomorrow for part 3 in the mildly interesting saga of what I’ve been up to recently!