Lunch Break

Any of you out there (if anyone at all!) watching WriterCAM.com will see that I’m working at home a lot lately, doing technical writing for The Very Big Computer Corporation.  Today I took a lunch break and my older daughter and I went out on the balcony and blew bubbles.  It’s very zen watching all those bubbles float off into the neighborhood.  It’s fun, too, when they weird people out.

I had an idea today.  Time to try another experiment.  I’ve got quite a backlog of short stories, some that I’ve been shopping around for quite a while without finding a home.  Hopefully it’s not because they suck … I like to think it’s because I write for myself, not for a specific market, and so it’s just not “matching” any established markets out there.

What I do is I write a story and then submit it to the highest paying markets first.  As the list of rejection slips grow, the story starts making its way down deeper into the list of less-paying markets, until finally it strikes a chord with someone who’s either willing to buy it, or who doesn’t pay at all but likes it enough to publish it. I’ve had stories in circulation for over ten years before they finally found a home. 

So I thought … hey, I’ve got these websites where I’m writing content and supporting it via context-sensitive ads … why not do that with some of my original fiction?  Then maybe they might actually be read by someone and — if the Gods are kind — I might make a few pennies off it (as opposed to spending dollars in postage shipping it out over and over again). And so that is what I’m going to try.

I’m not sure if I should put it right here on JJDavis.net or if I should put it on its own domain.  Hmm…  Will have to think about that.