Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

SingleSue

lemonjelly wrote: »

Not a round number this year.

The we is how I tend to talk, though it also refers to the time I was living with my folks. It also refers to the friends I kinda house share with at certain (busy) times of year.

I use a royal we too.....after 20 odd years of being with someone, I just can't get out of the habit of saying we.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of the problems is interpreting what the old thinks they need/says they need ... and then matching that to what's available ... and the old is becoming unpredictable.,.. thinks they can just get the local paper and rent a flat for example.

Anyway, search extended, going to see somewhere with them tomorrow, it's 20 miles away - couldn't fit it in today as the old is at the Centre and will be tired when they get back and they get back too late for me to take them to the place even if I whisked them straight into the car and away.

Hey, what's so wrong with mum renting a flat? Near one of the sibs of course?

lostinrates

PN...fwiw my aunt charged the estate for her time in care duties for my grandmother. Something to think about if you are doing this stuff unwillingly.


second: LJ...if you are telling yourself off and using the royal we then I think a trip to the doctors might be in order.....you know, just to check everyone who lives in your head is having their needs met.

lostinrates

Oh, and I have a cracking headache. the toddler I babysit sometimes had about a hiundred...well thats whatit sounded like....things that beeb, make animal noises or replicate sounds like ''vacuum cleaner'' and he was doing a plate sinning act trying to keep them all bleeting and beebing at the same time. He is a toothsome kid, but wow, parents must lose lots of hearing....mine can be dodgy (sitting near pr systems too often and jamming too loud in too small places)

tomterm8

GDB2222 wrote: »

What are op eds?
First-person pieces?
£60 for 750 words sounds like not a lot. Is that the going rate?

' I was walking down the street yesterday, and I saw a beggar. Well, he had a sign out..." blah, crap, blah, etc.

First-person, someone taking about what happened to them, using words like 'i', 'me', 'my'.
topical/news... means talking about whatever is in the news at the moment
op-ed = peoples opinions
£60-£70 is not bad if you can do it in a reasonable time - 1 hour - most fiction markets work on 2-5p a word, so £30 for that many words, BUT you can sell them again and again.

It's not bad money, if it is a weekly column, and if you can write quickly, but is not particularly brilliant either.

lostinrates

gdb .,...I am writing a monthly column atm and I get less than that. I get zilch. what I do get is what PN emphasised ...a commitment to write something, and the (very minor) discipline of a deadline.

GDB2222

tomterm8 wrote: »

' I was walking down the street yesterday, and I saw a beggar. Well, he had a sign out..." blah, crap, blah, etc.

First-person, someone taking about what happened to them, using words like 'i', 'me', 'my'.
topical/news... means talking about whatever is in the news at the moment
op-ed = peoples opinions
£60-£70 is not bad if you can do it in a reasonable time - 1 hour - most fiction markets work on 2-5p a word, so £30 for that many words, BUT you can sell them again and again.

It's not bad money, if it is a weekly column, and if you can write quickly, but is not particularly brilliant either.

DD may be able to do it in an hour or two. I'm a slow writer. It would take me a day of agonising to get 750 words down.

SingleSue

I've done 5000 words overnight before now.....I pee farted around with one of my TMA's, wasn't happy with it and started it completely from scratch with less than 10 hours to deadline.

The first few thousand were not too bad but the last 1000 was a real struggle, my eyes felt like they were popping out of my head.....but I got a good mark (to my absolute amazement!)

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

DD may be able to do it in an hour or two. I'm a slow writer. It would take me a day of agonising to get 750 words down.

My piece usually takes me five/ten munutes to write. But for obvious reasons I get dh to typo check...which can be a delay as he has to fit it in when he is free.

edit: a bit disingenuous though....I sometimes spend half an hour researching, sometimes a few hours.....never on the day I write though and at my leisure.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

My piece usually takes me five/ten munutes to write. But for obvious reasons I get dh to typo check...which can be a delay as he has to fit it in when he is free.

The way I think about that is kind of like this bloke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE

Except that I am rude, and he is polite.