My hips hurt!

I sat in this chair researching for hours yesterday, and my body is complaining this morning. I think I'll sit a little longer, though. My mind is too full of stuff and my spirit is wide awake. My keister's just gonna have to deal with it!

I went to www.wellfedwriter.com yesterday. It was most interesting. I read a piece on Peter Bowerman in my 2006 Writer's Market and ended up at the website. Commercial copywriting sounds scary, but when I thought about it, I realized I'd done it before. I used to write for The Pan American, the student newspaper for UTPA and I worked in the University Press. I did layout and design on several pieces and wrote quite a bit of content. After college I did two direct mail pieces. One was layout only (and it really looked good) here in Austin for an attorney who was giving a seminar. The other was copy and layout in Edinburg for a mailbox service. Unfortunately, I cleaned out my files about three years ago and decided I'd held on to them long enough. (Kick, kick, kick...)

So, today I turn to my teacher duties. *sigh*

One last note on The Well-Fed Writer. The book talks about marketing yourself. A few of the reviews I read on Amazon were turned off by that. However, as I read it, I felt that it was possible. I have enough confidence in my abilities to pull this off.

Okay, NOW to teaching stuff...


Sparked,
Laura