This woman’s regular work
Betsy (one of the editors/founders over at ePregnancy) has been reading my blog now and then and she liked it enough to ask if I would rewrite some entries for their Myria site. I was trying to do that and sent them something and then kind Betsy asked if I wanted to make it a regular column. 
She said we could call it “This Mother’s Work” and I said that was fine but I liked “This Woman’s Work” even better so I think that’s the title they’re going with. It’s going live late next week or maybe early the week after.
The good thing about a column is that it proves you can produce work regularly (this will be weekly) and hopefully(!) you get a following and then you can say to a possible book publisher, “See, people like reading me.” If you syndicate the column (and the generous Myria contract allow you to publish your work elsewhere after 3 months), then you can say that you’re seen in X number of venues. I’m not sure how that all works, though, so I’ll have to explore that.
I realized after talking to some savvier (and more successful) writers that if I want to write a book, I need to start building up a body of work that looks like what would be in the kind of book that I want to write. I’m hoping, too, that this will give me a more formal opportunity (this blog being the informal opportunity) to explore the topics I want to write about.
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