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Location: Inside the Writer's Digest office | Write a one-paragraph bio about your writing career to date. Then, write the one-paragraph bio you expect to have in 2020 (including all your major writing accomplishments).
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My present and future writing career:-
Describing what I am doing now with my writing career is a high sounding term, because a career is one from which a person is thriving, in which he or she has established and has earned a name for him or her, it has become his or her full time profession. But I have not so far fit into in any one of these yardsticks. Therefore, writing a bio of my present writing experience but not career, would be more appropriate, because I am yet to convert myself into a full time writer. But I have some passion for writing in English; perhaps that passion for writing in English might have been born out of my snobbish attitude towards English.I have been writing for the past two years. I have started as a blogger in Writing Campus.com.Then began to write in Ezine articles.com as a basic member and now I am a basic plus level member; despite contributing as many as 35 articles so far, the Ezine articles.com being a premiere article directory, still considers me as a novice, despite finishing my quota of basic + level author; but one thing is certain; I have been recognized as an expert author for whatever I have got published in the site.But still my tryst with the site continues, with a number of rejections for basic reasons like spelling mistakes, not conforming to guidelines for submission of articles etc.But I continue to submit articles, with the ultimate objective of becoming an expert author with a right to submit unlimited number of articles and to gain Platinum member status.I am still maintaining a link with the free article submission directory like Ezine Articles.com, because I fervently hope that I may become an affiliate of the site with an earning prospect in the near future,I also hope that the site may make upfront payment for all its platinum members for the articles submitted by them.Coming to my experience with other writing sites like Helium.com and Triond.com.At Helium I was fairly successful and had gained three stars and sometimes even four stars for my articles,by virtue of the high ratings that I could achieve.I could also reasonably increase my earnings at Helium.com. But, to my dismay, Helium.com had closed its doors to non-American writers, which was a clear step of protectionism to safeguard the US writers in the site, because, the site has its headquarters at Massachusetts.Now coming to Triond and Bukisa.While Triond.com is a very good site offering multifarious opportunities for its writers to write in different genres and even in different languages.It is a good news that Triond.com has crossed a gross income of $ 1.5 millions; but despite having a good showing, Triond is yet to improve the income prospects of its writing members.Another, minus point about Triond is, it blindly supports the cause of US writers, in preference to other writers, hailing from other countries of the world.Bukisa is another site, where I have been posting my original articles, even published elsewhere and the site has a good prospect for earnings by the members, with an index of 3.45.While in Triond, you can only post your original and unpublished articles, at Bukisa, you can even post your original articles published elsewhere. Despite dwelling at length about my writing experience in all the sites said above, the net result being, that I could so far able to earn only a few peanuts, that was rather insignificant and inadequate and not commensurate with my hardwork.And in the end, to say the least, I cannot boast myself as a writer.
But I am a day dreamer; still hopes to achieve something concrete by 2020.First of all I pray that the Almighty may shower His blessings upon me till 2020 and I wish I were alive even in 2020, because I have now already crossed 50.My wishful thinking as a writer gives me a rosy picture by the time I reaches 2020.I have turned into a full time writer giving up my present career.I have established as a fairly good writer in my niche.I have got umpteen number of publications in reputed international magazines, despite my pessimistic attitude in the early part of my career as a writer or rather I can say, a novice.I have shifted my residence from my present small town like Villupuram to Chennai, the nearby metropolis.I have got a posh bungalow in a costly area like Mylapore or Adayar or T.Nagar, in Chennai.I have got my own spacious private room fully airconditioned, fully equipped with a full-fledged library and with all writing tools necessary for a successful writer.In order to have a wide knowledge and experience of the present world and enjoy life to the fullest, I frequently travel throughout India and abroad as well, spending at least ten days in a month.I have got my own dream car, self-driving.I speak very little; but I write a lot spending at least 5 hours every day.I have also published a few books which are best sellers in the book world.Southgate has become a household name among the writing fraternity as well as among the book lovers and magazine readers.Now, I am in my post 70’s, expecting some kind of recognition for my writings from the writing fraternity as well as from the publishers. I hope that I am sure to catch up with them.
Edited by Southgate 2009-10-25 2:19 PM
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Leonard Franks. What can one say about the writer Leonard Franks? That his name is Leonard Franks? That his first name is Leonard? This all true, but does it truly express his writing career? Just about, exactly. When asked what he thought was most important about the fact that he is 18 years old, has not published anything, and doesn't write anything that anyone really likes he said he didn't know. Strong words for a man of his seemingly calm demeanor. This reporter's opinion? I'm not actually a reporter. I'm just Leonard Franks writing in a way that's really stupid. Leonard Franks.
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What can one say about the future writer Leonard Franks? That his name is no longer Leonard Franks because he changed it when he went into hiding after stealing the empire states building? Or can one talk about the fact that he has written the first book entirely devoid of verbs to outsell the Bible and the Koran? Or maybe that his desires for a writing career, while present, are still vague, and don't really make any sense? In this reporter's opinion, it would be awesome if I actually was a reporter. | |
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| I am just a baby. I have written nothing noteworthy. College papers. Creative stories stuffed in files in my cabinet. One behavioral management project in a professional magazine! I got a whole six free copies of the publication as pay. A few submits here. A lot in my mind. The problem is I have no idea how to start. Where to go. Who to trust. Hey, that sounds kinda of like life!
In 2020 I hope to have written and published the many stories that rattle around in my head all day. And make lots of money. Enough to say that I can stand on my own two feet if fate ever made me. So many women can't say that and right now I know I couldn't and that scares me. Is that a runon or poetic license to make a long statement? Future, here I come. | |
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Location: swamps o' Florida | Currently I have no writing career, I have no job either so now I have some time to spend on my projects that have been on the back burner for over ten years. Three young adult books sitting in my filing cabinet all three stuck on chapter three. I have seven young reader children's stories that are still being illustrated. I have one adult fiction novel on disk around here somewhere, it has promise, and I am still thinking about it. As bio's go, the only rewards have been from teachers in public schools over the years who encouraged me as a youngster.
2020: My career includes several awards for children's fiction that mean as much to me as the enormous amounts of revenue not only from my children's stories but from my limited spin off merchandise and computer animated movie based on my stories due out in 2021. I still do book tours and visit elementary schools, and have an active national reading club for children that uses new approaches and innovations through the elementary school systems to help children excel in reading.
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Fifth grade. We were all required to submit a story of a given topic. Weeks later, our results came in. Mine? Highest in the class; smarter than the brainiacs. Thus, I realized my gift. English classes for the rest of my school career were a breeze. Anything less than a ninety-eight? Never! I pushed past one-hundred with the help of bonus assignments given to the class. Senior year I excitedly joined the Yearbook Staff. I wrote, took pictures, and conducted interviews shortly before my "promotion." I was the go-to girl when it came to proofreading. I went through everyone's stories, marking errors meticlously. My advisor sent everyone my way for help. I was absolutely glowing! Much like when I was nominated for one of my stories in the yearbook at the annual state journalism convention. I got highest honors! Currently, other than writing letters to the editor in the local newspaper, I haven't published a single thing (other than my yearbook work), but hey, Im only in college now. I have tons of ideas and no clue where to start. I began one novel in tenth grade, when I abruptly switched to another (my current one if you will).
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By 2020, I expect my novel series that I am currently working on to be released and received well. Not to mention, a second young adult series in the works (my tenth grade vision). Lastly, my single adult fiction to be published. Big dreams? No. I just want to write and I want readers to enjoy what I am so proudly fond of. | |
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Ogden Thunkleberry is an unpublished writer, philanthropist, butcher, and part-time schizophrenic who assumed the pseudonym of 'Sjshark' in order to bring down the Nixon administration. His writing began as short, unsolicited submissions to Entertainment Weekly which mostly consisted of threats to celebrities, thinly-veiled Communist propoganda and complaints about how many repeats there are on television. The editors of Entertainment Weekly often sent Ogden letters requesting that he stop submitting his writing because it was "really terrible and sort of creepy". These letters did not intimidate Ogden. This was partly because of his rebellious nature but also because he was illiterate. From 2004-2006, he hosted a very successful remake of the classic game show Let's Make a Deal in his living room.
AS OF 2020!!!!!
Ogden's extensive research into the Nixon adminstration led him to the bombshell discovery that Nixon had already resigned the presidency in 1974. Devastated, Ogden changed his pseudonym from Sjshark to Badcat T. Sharkbite. He soon recovered his passion for investigative journalism and devoted his considerable skills to determining if the movie The Blair Witch Project was real. Later, he married actress Heather Donahue. As of this writing, they are both real estate agents in Topeka in the year 2020. In their free time, they do battle with tyrannical cyborgs in a dystopian world where machine holds domain over man. They also enjoy crossword puzzles.
Edited by sjshark 2009-11-03 12:33 AM
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| Though a novice with ambitions sourced from a fleeting mood of exaggerated ability, I’ve convinced myself that I’ve already left an indelible impression on the world as its foremost creator of affronts to literary sensibilities. In other words, my writing is so bereft of stylistic and literary merits that my first story received a subdued “OK?” as a review from a friend bold enough to risk his sanity in service to my delusions. Thank you very much, Bobby, and remember that generosity with the truth is a tendency best revealed in the company of people who’ve already declared themselves partial to your oddities. Despite Bobby’s lukewarm encouragement, I’ve resolved, at least for the foreseeable future or until I find a more promising hobby, to continue translating into English the disjointed thoughts clogging up my mind and imagination.
Hopefully, as time wears on and I acquire an intimacy with my peculiarities, I will be able to mine them for continued creativity and inspiration, which are, unquestionably, the most precious of rarities for any person engaged in a struggle to conquer something as rebellious as a fictional world. Additionally, since life guarantees all of us an occasional attack of cheesiness, I’ve accumulated an extensive collection of phrases, some my own and some borrowed, through which I should be able to extrude it so as to render its effect on my writing negligible. Regardless of the stringency of the measures I impose on myself, however, I’m still certain that my future will be spent as a sharecropper in this world’s mediocrity.
Assuming that 2012 doesn’t cause a stoppage of time or some other disturbance to our solar system’s merry rhythm, 2020 should find me busy as a storyteller serving the imaginations of those whose appreciation for the written word reflects an innate craving for all that liberates us from the crippling psychological sluggishness that defines so much of our lives. This is the overarching hope of my life. Over the next several years, as I pursue this craft, I will discover just how little or much I’ve been given to share with this world.
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