I’ve been fielding emails and telephone calls this week from the client that has appointed me onto their writers panel (see my posts on The Big Deal).

If negotiations go to plan in Boston, where my principal currently is pitching the project, I have my first writing assignment which will result in being published offline in the heady world of the “printed word”. 

Part of me is thinking, “Bloody hell, it would have to be an insurance directory!”

Part of me is thinking, “Bloody hell, is that what they are going to pay me ”

Yet another  is thinking, “Bloody hell, I’ll be published - a real writer!”

When someone asks me where I’ve been published I won’t have to feel sheepish about giving them a website address to go and see my work but I do expect I’ll have to scan the published work so it can be emailed to them!

The paperless office!!

I’m smirking as I think about this as as a “writer”, I’ve aspired to getting myself onto paper rather than a computer screen.  Am I alone in feeling that I’m not a “real” writer until published on paper? 

Writing kudos revolves around being published; is being published a mark of popularity, commercial viability or simply tenacity?

Probably a mixture of all three.

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